Synonym: commend, congratulate, flatter, praise. Antonym: insult. Similar words: accomplishment, accomplishments, compliance, complicated, sentiment, raiment, implement, employment. Meaning: ['kɒmplɪmənt] n. a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration. v. 1. say something to someone that expresses praise 2. express respect or esteem for.
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91) Cheltenham's Tory faithful welcomed the Lady and she returned the compliment.
92) Men enjoy listening to flattery, and are more likely to be nice to and do things for those who compliment them. Dr T.P.Chia
93) No greater compliment can be paid to the forthright intelligence of any businessman than to say that he understands production.
94) In any walk of life that would be a compliment.
95) The appointment represented an extraordinary compliment to Giap, the former schoolteacher.
96) After a bit she became used to being stared at,[http://sentencedict.com/compliment.html] even taking it as a compliment.
97) As she pulled on a tan leather blouson, she eyed me warily, and I returned the compliment.
98) Her greatest compliment came in 1900 when she was accorded the title of Christmas-card Laureate which earned her national fame.
99) Enjoy being radiant; who cares about the motive for the compliment?
100) This backhanded compliment is, in fact, a tribute to the imagination and commitment of community educators.
101) The pair cringed in embarrassment as the president, speaking through an interpreter, paid them the world's most unlikely compliment.
102) To Joe the greatest compliment was to be considered amusing, the greatest insult to be thought boring.
103) Jay was delighted with the compliment and intrigued to see inside Lucy's flat.
104) I said he was a workaholic, and he seemed to take it as a compliment.
105) If you say we're more of a pop band, then that's a compliment.
106) People still think the greatest compliment they can pay you is to say that you look younger than your age.
107) I have ventured into the use of your name several times but you have not returned the compliment.
108) Yet his manner made it clear that he was simply stating a fact,[Sentencedict.com] not flattering with a compliment.
109) To say the two groups come from different planets is almost true, and probably considered a compliment by both.
110) He would only assume that she attached some importance to his opinion and take it as a compliment.
111) One year later, the Eastbourne Road school is returning the compliment.
112) Katherine found herself smiling happily as if the compliment were directed at her own home.
113) ''You have lovely hair'', said Bob to Emma, who blushed at the compliment.
114) Then she said I was incorrigible, and I said that was a compliment.
115) An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self- respect. Mark Twain
116) Nehru, having accepted Commonwealth membership, was content to pay Mountbatten the compliment.
117) She said it was just like you which is the greatest compliment she can give-and we can receive....
118) Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly. Mehmet Murat ildan
119) The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. Henry David Thoreau
120) But the members of Greyhound Soul take it as a compliment, as it was meant to be taken.
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