(n.) An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend.
(v. t.) To praise, flatter, or gratify, by expressions of approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to.
(v. i.) To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(2) He shrugs in bemusement at what is, to him, a meaningless compliment.
(3) The person giving the official Coalition briefing described the discussion between current and former leaders as an “almost nauseating exchange of compliments”.
(4) Methods that compliment, reflect, and are consistent with developmental needs of the young teen provide cogent approaches to teen pregnancy prevention.
(5) When, exactly, did the work "dark" become a reverential compliment, as opposed to merely a neutral description?
(6) It always surprises me that this movie came out as recently as 1992 because this film has the definite feel of the late 80s to me, something from the same era as, say, Weekend at Bernie's and other such classics (as regular readers will know by now, there are no higher compliments from me).
(7) At 52, Stewart has the bouncy energy of a man half his age and, unlike most in the public eye, has an aversion to compliments.
(8) In a perverse way, it’s a backhanded compliment to what is after all a young coach (he’ll turn 41 at the end of the month) that Kreis, at RSL, gets treated as part of the MLS furniture.
(9) She has won compliments for her elegant clothing and her interactions with ordinary people in a country where it is rare to see leaders' spouses or children in public.
(10) Those are words you wouldn’t use again.” ‘I know I’m stronger than most people I know.’ She adds that the word “cockroach” was actually intended as a kind of compliment: “The picture in my mind was these resilient creatures.
(11) When my wife said she was the Shaq to my Kobe, what she really meant to say is that she compliments me and makes me whole, hopefully without the animosity.
(12) In type III allergy, compliment activation plays an important role.
(13) When I got upset about this I was told I should take it as a compliment.
(14) However, further studies must be carried out to verify this finding before using the information to compliment other prognostic variables, such as age of patient, previous therapy, cytokinetics, etc.
(15) There was no intention to exploit anyone or indeed supply cheap labour; our time in training and people investment shone through on the day with compliments from officials at how well turned out and efficient our team was.
(16) I think we showed belief on the pitch and obviously Leicester, compliments to them, but we have to try to chase them.
(17) Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) can be subdivided into three epochs: 1. from its inception by Dotter and Judkins up to the first coronary artery stenosis dilatation with the Grüntzig balloon catheter system; 2. from the introduction of coronary stenosis dilatation by Grüntzig up to its unequivocal acceptance; 3. the period of influence of low-risk coronary dilatation on peripheral angioplasty and the search for techniques to compliment or obviate the need for balloon dilatation.
(18) The program targeted both nonverbal responses related to the actual execution of the ball game as well as verbal responses for play initiation and providing compliments for the confederate's behavior.
(19) In one sense, Jenkins won outright - over and again, critics have complimented the film for presenting a version of Wuornos that is "not sympathetic".
(20) For the first time, foreigners didn't ask awkward questions about the war, but complimented us on our hospitality and the beauty of our cities.
Reproach
Definition:
(v. t.) To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.
(v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
(v.) The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.
(v.) A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.
(v.) An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We lost to a great team and a great coach, but we want to win the league and we will be back – I have nothing to reproach my players for," he said.
(2) This examination leads to eliminate those reproaches because the consumer knows to which he is exposed, being forewarned: -when he is using mineral water at the cure-resort, by the thermal consultant who is watching over him, -when he is using one or the other of the conditioned waters, -either by the medical practictioner, who should give him the contre-indicates; -either by indicating on the label, if not the contre-indicates (like we would hope that they figure on), at least the composition (which now figures within the EEC).
(3) Hilary was one of few senior MPs whose expenses claims were totally beyond reproach – no surprise there.
(4) Prince Charles is being reproached again for having too many views on his future kingdom.
(5) The doctor tells it like it is, without reproach, but setting down the facts firmly.
(6) Each session deals with one of the following themes: "reproach & refusal", "request & emotions" and "relapse".
(7) First, normal psychological experience, with feelings of guilt, reproach, stability, indifference; deeper awareness is suppressed with the aid of forms of defense such as scientific objectivism, positivism, and reductionism.
(8) He told parliament on Tuesday that the public were sick of reproaches and insults.
(9) Along the way we invent creative ways to kill each other while trapped and make a pact that if one of us gets a flight out they are allowed to go without the other with no reproach and the other one will make friends with a volleyball.
(10) China is exercising the right of self-preservation that every country enjoys according to international law, which is beyond reproach,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing.
(11) Just the fact of its being there at all took my breath away - a discordant modernist appendage to the gilded baroque former courthouse which is the entrance to the museum, and thus a symbolic reproach to bürgerlich Berlin itself.
(12) The MPs' report said today: "We conclude that Mr Andrew MacKay breached the rules relating to second home allowances by wrongly designating his home in Bromsgrove as his main home for ACA purposes and because his claims against ACA for his London home were not beyond reproach.
(13) The most striking observations were the relative paucity of depressed mood, self-reproach, and suicidal ideation in patients with major depression.
(14) The integrity of the commissioner of police must be beyond reproach.
(15) Mossack Fonseca has always insisted that it acts “beyond reproach” and that, in 40 years, it has “never been accused or charged in connection with criminal wrongdoing”.
(16) In cardiac surgery mainly new neurological deficits are content of malpractice reproach; in vascular surgery artery injuries and surgical procedures to correct varicose veins are most often involved.
(17) The prime minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, had earlier insisted MPs must be “beyond reproach” regarding their financial activities.
(18) Furthermore, we found out that the life events of the "patients grown up during the postwar period" were limited to the personal interests and that they rarely suffered from self-reproach or feeling of guilt.
(19) The public admission by the man who led France's fight against tax evasion that he secretly defrauded the taxman and was "caught in a spiral of lies" is a huge embarrassment for Hollande, who promised that his government would be beyond reproach after the corruption allegations that dogged previous French administrations.
(20) At the start of this month, the archbishop of Canterbury won near universal praise for his public reproach of the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, during a trip to Harare.