miscompliment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An insult.
Example Sentences
- "I hope I have not paid the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) any miscompliment, but Ramsay Muir and Cole can produce good reports, well-written and well-documented."
- "Thus a catastrophe to the nose in the physical sense is extremely regrettable. But it is not so easy to understand why a miscompliment to it should bring up the beast in a man. Yet the fact is there, sticking out as clearly as one's nose."
- "It ain't no exaggeration to say he was the stubbornest man I ever knew, except his dad. It ain't no miscompliment, either."
Etymology
From mis- + compliment.