uncomplimentary remark

Queen Henrietta taking part in a masque at Christmas in 1632-3, and Prynne's Histriomastix happening to be published the next day, the poor man lost his ears for an uncomplimentary remark on women-actors, which was found in the margin, though it could not possibly have been written with any reference to the queen's appearance on that occasion.

Well, of course he was not exactly one of the slim ones, but why should this rather uncomplimentary remark be fired in his face?

It passed him, and he heard its driver hurl some uncomplimentary remark at him as the rattling old kettle clanked by.

"We'd like to have you take yourself off, somewhere, and stay till the day after the party," was Kat's uncomplimentary remark.

An uncomplimentary remark had escaped the lady, as to the state of the overdone fowls, and Nelly “could put this and that together as well as another.”