pseudocompliment

A form of pseudo-compliment — A statement that sounds like a compliment, but really is not.

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Meanings

nounpseudocompliment (plural pseudocompliments)

plural pseudocompliments

  1. alternativeAlternative form of pseudo-compliment.

    This time, however, the true valuation of the two poets — disguised in the former poem by a pseudocompliment to Ponticus and ironic self-effacement on Propertius' part — is out in the open from the beginning […]

    1985, Hans-Peter Stahl, Propertius: "love" and "war", page 61
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APA

pseudocompliment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudocompliment

MLA

“pseudocompliment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudocompliment. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pseudocompliment,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudocompliment.

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