| Ever the party leader, he even offered a backhanded compliment to the protesters. |
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| It's usually a backhanded compliment to say that the lighting is great, but in this case, it's the simple truth. |
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| If that sounds like a backhanded compliment, it is intended as a compliment nonetheless. |
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| Jude nodded and smiled confidently, even if he was slightly confused by Stephen's backhanded compliment. |
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| Something about Gran's tone suggested that this was only a backhanded compliment. |
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| Has anybody here gotten a post-show compliment that was meant sincerely but felt like a backhanded compliment? |
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| I mean, neither of us is in the prime of youth anymore and this was a bit of a backhanded compliment. |
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| I don't really think he meant it as a backhanded compliment, but it was funny, all the same. |
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| The backhanded compliment had made her blood rise with both embarrassment and a little bit of annoyance. |
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| In his heyday, Richards had an eerily clinical and meticulous approach to drug use, a backhanded compliment to be sure. |
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| It was a backhanded compliment and not a very good one at that. |
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| Thank you for the backhanded compliment in admitting I'm intelligent. |
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| I guess this is kind of a backhanded compliment on the performances, but the reality is that the stage performance didn't help at all with the film. |
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| It was not an insult per se, but definitely a backhanded compliment. |
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| A backhanded compliment, but still: a backhanded compliment! |
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| Only Boris Johnson broke brown-nosing ranks to pay a backhanded compliment to Vegas fun-lover Prince Harry and poor put-upon Kate. |
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| Perhaps, finally, the Netherlands will shed itself of the backhanded compliment of being the best team never to win a world championship. |
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