Compliment
Definitions
- An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.
- Complimentary language; courtesy, flattery.
Equivalents
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Examples
“pay⟳ someone a compliment”
“[…] I met him With customary compliment; when he, Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and So leaves me to consider⟳ what is breeding That changeth thus his manners.”
“[...] what honour that, but tedious waste⟳ of time, to sit⟳ and hear⟳ So many hollow compliments and lies, Outlandish flatteries?”
“Virtue indeed meets many a rhiming friend, And many a compliment politely penn’d,”
“He told the Captain, He was heartily sorry for his Misfortunes; tho’ in my Opinion that was nothing but a Compliment: For, as I found afterwards, he was more brutish, and dishonest, than most of the other Kings on the Island […]”
“This accomplished man condescended to think⟳ of a young girl, and take⟳ the pains to talk⟳ to her, not with absurd compliment, but with an appeal to her understanding, and sometimes with instructive correction.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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