Usually means: Compliment so subtly it criticizes.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. damn with faint praise: Merriam-Webster
  2. damn with faint praise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. damn with faint praise: Wiktionary
  4. damn with faint praise: Dictionary.com
  5. Damn with faint praise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Damn with Faint Praise: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. damn with faint praise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. damn with faint praise: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. damn with faint praise: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. damn with faint praise: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (damn with faint praise)

verb:  (idiomatic) To provide praise that is minimal or inconsequential, implying that such praise is the best that could be said.

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