Usually means: Insincere praise with hidden insult.
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  1. left-handed compliment, left-handed compliment: Collins English Dictionary
  2. left-handed compliment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. left-handed compliment: Wiktionary
  4. left-handed compliment: Dictionary.com
  5. Left-handed compliment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Left-handed Compliment: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. left-handed compliment: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (left-handed compliment)

noun:  (idiomatic) A complimentary remark which is ambiguous or ineptly worded, so that it may be interpreted as having an unflattering or dismissive sense.

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