| 单词 | to damn with faint praise |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto damn with faint praise P4. to damn with faint praise and variants: to praise so half-heartedly or disingenuously as to imply condemnation, criticism, or disapproval; to praise a minor feature of something in such a way as to imply condemnation of it as a whole. ΚΠ 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer Prol. And, with faint Praises, one another Damn. 1723 A. Pope in J. Markland Cythereia xii. 91 Damn with faint Praise, assent with civil Leer, And, without Sneering, teach the rest to Sneer. 1821 E. Quillinan Retort Courteous 23 Critics have oft assail'd my careless verse, Or damn'd it with faint praise, that direst curse. 1885 Longman's Mag. Dec. 151 Could I not damn with faint praise and stab with sharp insinuendo? 1930 Economica 29 204 It is invidious to damn with faint praise; but useful as the book may very well prove on occasion, one can hardly call it great or first-rate. 2005 Morning Star (Nexis) 31 Jan. 2 [He] suggests that employers now have less incentive to oppose unions because their impact on productivity and profits is so modest, which is to damn the unions with faint praise. < as lemmas |
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