miscompliment

Definitions

An insult.

Examples

“I hope⟳ I have⟳ not paid the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) any miscompliment, but Ramsay Muir and Cole can produce⟳ good reports, well-written and well-documented.”

“Thus a catastrophe to the nose in the physical sense⟳ is extremely regrettable. But it is not so easy to understand⟳ why a miscompliment to it should bring⟳ up the beast in a man. Yet the fact is there, sticking out as clearly as one's nose.”

“It ain't no exaggeration to say⟳ he was the stubbornest man I ever knew, except his dad. It ain't no miscompliment, either.”

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