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left-handed compliment

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[left-handed compliment] An ambiguous compliment which is interpretable as an offense.

* /I didn't know you could look so pretty! Is that a wig you're wearing?/

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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