Redditors Share Everyday Compliments That Are Actually An Insult And Here Are 20 Of Them

Compliments have a way of uplifting one's mood but here's some with hidden mockery

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• March 24, 2022

Everyone and I mean everyone, loves a good compliment. And just the way you love to be complimented, you should also learn to compliment others too.

Compliments have a way of uplifting one's mood. Something like "you look as beautiful as always" is enough to make someone grin from ear to ear.

But then people have decided to hide some mockery in compliments, making it important to wash your ears and understand what someone is saying to you in the form of a compliment. You can imagine dressing up so cute and smooth just like you always do, and someone who sees you passes almost every time tells you "wow, you look good today."

Your default mouth setting might actually utter a thank you, but as you move and your mind processes the deep meaning of that compliment, you might be like, "so this person is trying to say that I look bad on other days." Well, what to do but swallow the compliment and listen better next time?

Sometimes, the compliment might not have a mockery, but sarcasm will be added to it, and if you don’t detect it, you’ll keep swallowing it every time. Anyways, a Redditor had taken to the r/AskReddit community to ask a question similar to this, and the Redditors wasted no time in giving their replies.

And the question has landed...

The post has more than 5K upvotes along with 3.4K comments. Here are some of the most upvoted comments made by redditors:

1. Oops! That one hits so hard

2. It's the second reply for me always

3. So you're trying to say that I look dumber?

4. Lol... Master of all trade... Or wisdom

5. Yeah, thank you but no thanks

6. Whatever it says is what it is

7. The respect and leadership you've shown our team simply cannot be stated...

8. Inorder words, the place was dirtier or less neat...

9. Yup! I look too good for my age

10. This means that if I see you first, I hide so you don't see me. That way, you won't see me later...

11. Yay, mom! Dad! My performance was on top of the bell curve!

12. I will just look you straight in the face with no smiles on my face

13. Yeah, right... Shove it down your throat

14. The "little man syndrome" got me howling but I know I shouldn't

15. I couldn't pull off being your size like you can

16. Lol... It's the last comment for me

17. Uhm... Okay

18. We are all allowed to be tired, aren't we?

19. Well, good for you too!

20. I'd deeply meditate on these words because it's deep

21. What the actual f...

22. I don't have to wear make up all the time, duh...

Most of these compliments I never really knew were actually an insult, and some I have actually made use of to complement people without any ulterior motive in mind, but I guess we learn every day. Which of these compliments have you been making use of without knowing it was an insult?

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Maryjane