praise with faint damns
verbEtymology
Inversion of damn with faint praise.
Definitions
To provide minimal critique, implying that the criticism is the worst that could be said…
To provide minimal critique, implying that the criticism is the worst that could be said of someone or something.
- The former accordingly greeted his book with warm approval, and the latter praised it with faint damns.
- But his emphasis on the novel’s interest in sex was a come-on – a way of praising it with faint damns.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for praise with faint damns. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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