miscompliment

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ compliment

Noun

miscompliment (plural miscompliments)

1. An insult.
   • 1935, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Official Report, page 1729:

     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.

   • 1963, Mother India: Monthly Review of Culture - Volume 15, page 38:

     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.

   • 2010, Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne, page 242:

     It ain't no exaggeration to say he was the stubbornest man I ever knew, except his dad. It ain't no miscompliment, either.