What is Backhanded Insult?
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A compliment couched in the form or tone of an insult. Often used by people who *want* to be nice, but fear being seen as weak or disingenuous, but can be unintentional.
When Maurice told Mary she was "the least photogenic pretty chick" he'd ever seen, he meant that pictures didn't do her beauty justice, but it came off as a backhanded insult.
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One who presses too lightly on the "Shift" key, thereby causing breaks in strings of exclamation/question marks.
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Someone who performs the re-writing of some coding routine.
Also, general derogatory term for anyone, for any reason.
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