miscompliment
miscompliment noun: an insult.
Noun
miscompliment (plural miscompliments)
- 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.1935, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Official Report, page 1729
- 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.1963, Mother India: Monthly Review of Culture - Volume 15, page 38
Forms of miscompliment
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Origin of miscompliment
From mis- + compliment.
Questions about miscompliment
- What does miscompliment mean?
- Miscompliment means an insult.
- What part of speech is miscompliment?
- Miscompliment is a noun.
- What is the plural of miscompliment?
- The plural of miscompliment is miscompliments.
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