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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a retard
based off of a tard my dad went to school with named jimmy, thus they called each other jimmy tards in his retarded honor
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a weird saying that doesn't actually exist. possibly said by the oompa-loompas of willy-wonkas chocolate factory.
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Easter Sunday. Christ came back from the dead on a Sunday. Zombies come back from the dead. Ergo, Zombie Sunday.
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