fish for compliments

verb

Definitions

  1. To self-deprecate in order to induce someone to make a compliment.

    • He’s so narcissistic! He whines that he’s ugly and unlikeable just to fish for compliments.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fish for compliments. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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