miscompliment
nounEtymology From mis- + compliment.
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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:
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- It ain't no exaggeration to say he was the stubbornest man I ever knew, except his dad. It ain't no miscompliment, either.2010, Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne, page 242: