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damn with faint praise
idiom
to praise someone or something so little or with so little enthusiasm that it suggests you do not really admire them: 有些口不应心地赞许…;对…明褒实贬
Of course, to say a restaurant isn't as bad as you thought it would be is to damn with faint praise.
Some critics, while respecting his previous work, will damn his new ideas with faint praise.
He appeared in his interview to damn his colleague with faint praise.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Disapproving & criticizing
anathematize
animadversion
aspersion
aw
backbite
barrel
bash
belabour
boo
disapprobation
excoriate
knocker
let someone have both barrelsidiom
low blow
mordacious
mordancy
nitpicker
pile
slam
union-basher
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