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miscompliment en · NOUN

Etymology

From mis- + compliment.

Meanings

1. An insult.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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