pseudo-compliment

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + compliment.

  1. derived from complēmentum
  2. derived from cumplimiento
  3. derived from complimento
  4. borrowed from compliment
  5. prefixed as pseudo-compliment — “pseudo + compliment

Definitions

  1. A statement that sounds like a compliment, but really is not.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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