compliment
Example Sentences
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He was a keen student of dialect; doing movies in the South, he meandered down backroads, learning just the right way to frame a question in rural Mississippi or deliver a compliment in west Texas.
From Los Angeles Times
"This movie that isn't going to be for everyone but, personally, I think that's way more of a compliment than it is an insult," says Fitzpatrick.
From BBC
While the daytime host complimented her look, Huger said her exterior is “not a reflection of what God has done for me.”
From Los Angeles Times
It was the best compliment I could imagine.
From Literature
How is she responding to the flood of compliments?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
