Yet his statement was a master class in the art of damning with faint praise.
You're damning them with faint praise if you think they're only 'pretty good. '
While that might sound like damning a product with faint praise, it is actually a compliment for an alternative vehicle.
"They are the most popular apple," he said, damning the apples with faint praise.
It damns with faint praise as I hope it was meant to.
I suppose I could be accused of damning with faint praise.
Which sounds like damning with faint praise but there are no two ways around it.
My grandmother's knack for damning with faint praise can't have helped the marriage.
The professor had always been polite about her clothes, but there was such a thing as damning with faint praise.
Your comment is the very definition of damning with faint praise.