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Old 04-12-2012, 07:56 PM  
Bill8
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Originally Posted by smutnut View Post
I actually was complimenting for real but you can suck my ass anyway.
I knew what you were doing. I picked the wrong term, I should have said 'reverse backhanded compliment'. We don't have a good term for a compliment disquised as an insult - at least I can't think of such a term offhand.

Google is no help - so I bet the term doesn't exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhanded_compliment
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