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Compliment Fail

An intended compliment that ends up becoming an epic fail
Hey dude, did you hear what our teacher said to me earlier? 'You passed the exam with the highest grade in the year! Well done, it seems you are actually quite good at french!' Massive compliment fail -_-
by Goldfire January 10, 2010
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pay a compliment

Flatter or praise to someone.
Pay a compliment: Flatter or praise to someone.
He paid her a compliment when he told her she looked like a model
by Patoedu14 June 9, 2016
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Compliment Inflation

When a person (typically a girl), receives so many compliments that the value of successive compliments decrease.
John: Ava, you’re so pretty!

Ava: Okay

John: Do you not like it when I say that?

Ava: No, it’s just that I get told I’m pretty all the time so the compliment doesn’t feel as special.

John: Oh I see, being called pretty has lost it’s effect due to compliment inflation.
by LittleToNoResearch January 9, 2024
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pay a compliment

Flatter or praise to someone.
Pay a compliment: Flatter or praise to someone.
He paid her a compliment when he told her she looked like a model
by Patoedu14 June 9, 2016
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Constructive Compliment

1: A suggestion that often is presented in an encouraging or complimenting way.
2: An idea that truly does not exist or have any meaning; a joke that people may use to describe an overly polite suggestion.
3: Something that one creates in Home Economics because one's group is doing terribly on the cooking assignment, namely one person, which you first send the cold, hard truth, then abandon it and attempt to compliment and suggest ideas at the same time.
1:
Person 1: "Hey, person. What you're doing right now is great, but I think if you did this that would make it better!"
Person 2: "Constructive criticism."
2:
Person 1: "Okay, so you're doing great and I love what you're doing right now, it looks really great and all, but maybe if you did this it would make it even better!"
Person 2: "Did you hear that? They just sugarcoated that so much."
Person 3: "Haha yeah, constructive complimenting am I right?"
Person 2: "Hahaha yep."
by Gr_y_Jay January 25, 2022
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Compliment hog

A girl that needs a compliment, praise, or positive word every 5 seconds.
People thought the compliment hog in class needed to get high on either cocaine or ecstasy more than she needed a compliment, since she seemed like someone with a low dopamine level in her brain.
by Solid Mantis August 23, 2019
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