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For years, whenever I wanted to compliment someone, I’d quote the film’s famous line: “That’ll do, Pig, that’ll do.” Recently, I finally got my husband to watch the movie with me.
Many of us feel awkward accepting compliments—we might blush, avert eye contact, start mumbling in embarrassment, or even disparage ourselves. If that’s you, remember how good the person ...
This is a set category.It should only contain pages that are Pejorative terms for people or lists of Pejorative terms for people, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories).
Backhanded compliment, an insult disguised as a compliment; Compliment, a formalized respectful action paid to a superior, such as saluting an officer in the armed forces; Compliments slip, a small acknowledgement note, less formal than a letter; Compliment, a typeface by Ludwig & Mayer
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Starting a compliment war doesn’t make you look humble. Instead, your flattering remark may come off as disingenuous—which is the last thing you want to happen. Avoid an awkward moment by ...
When the suffix is added to a word ending in the letter y, the y before the suffix is replaced with the letter i, as in happily (from happy). This does not always apply in the case of monosyllabic words; for example, shy becomes shyly (but dry can become dryly or drily , and gay becomes gaily ).
R&B – (i) Rhythm and Blues RBAR – (i) Row by agonizing row – a derogatory way of describing a technique of scanning a set of records in a database to update or examine the contents of each one. This is the technique of last resort in most cases, since most database operations are optimized when using set based analysis instead of the RBAR ...