Today is National Compliment Day, not everyone is great at giving compliments, and some people suffer from back handed compliment syndrome.
Horrible Compliments to Give
- You look good for your age.
- You are pretty for a black girl.
- You look pretty when you smile.
- You carry your weight well.
- You looked nice with long hair.
- You look as good as you did when I first met you.
- Any compliment giving a women a rating based on the 1-10 scale.
- Any compliment comparing a woman to a motor vehicle.
- You aren’t really that fat.
- Anything that you have start with “Please take this as a compliment…”
- Anything that starts with “Don’t take this the wrong way but…”
- I wish I didn’t have any kids and responsibilities like you.
- You looks so much better with make-up.
- That’s a really great picture of you. It doesn’t look like you at all.
- It’s amazing that you’re both pretty and smart.
What bad or backhanded compliments have you received or heard?
