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miscompliment

noun

Etymology

From mis- + compliment.

  1. derived from complēmentum
  2. derived from cumplimiento
  3. derived from complimento
  4. borrowed from compliment
  5. prefixed as miscompliment — “mis + compliment”

Definitions

  1. An insult.

    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA