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Meanings of more complimentary in English

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Usage of more complimentary in English
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Though I wish you could have been more complimentary about the writing.
Ghost Story
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No, no; don't say any more complimentary things to me just yet.
Armadale
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I'm willing to believe that you mean to be more complimentary than you sound.
Penny Plain
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But women in general took the more complimentary view.
Eleanor
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Her jealousy was much more complimentary than her ridicule.
A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus
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A few moments later he was still more complimentary.
Mike
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Even a little boorishness was more complimentary than chatter.
Tommy and Grizel
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What could have been more complimentary to college striplings?
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 / Little J...
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You were more complimentary a little while ago.
Don Orsino
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In television interviews in February, he could scarcely have been more complimentary about Klopp and Liverpool.
News.com.au
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Nor was Byron, another member, much more complimentary.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
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But on Facebook, others were more complimentary.
News.com.au
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Perhaps after all the real proposal is more complimentary to woman than is the ideal; at least perhaps
Hints for Lovers
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Hurdis is more complimentary and more just to the richest ornament of the swelling hill and the level moor.
Flowers and Flower-Gardens / With an Appendix of Practical Instr...
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The letter to the Dutch officer was in French, and longer and more complimentary than that to Mr. Webb.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H...
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His remarks as to the morality, in other respects, of both sexes were equally sweeping, and not more complimentary.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 05: 1559-60
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