Deceptive Insults That Sound Like Compliments

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mattstaff
Aug 26, 2020 9:00 AM EDT

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about various tricky insults that sound like compliments. If someone says something to you with a strange smile on their face that makes it look like they're getting away with something, it could very well be a clever insult masked as a compliment. 

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