compliment
noun
an expression of praise, commendation, or admiration.
are complimenting
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present progressiveof compliment.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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All humans, parents or not, have to learn to ignore the clueless remarks of busybodies, even when those busybodies are well-meaning and think they are complimenting us when they say things we find insulting.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2021
But people close to Wilson are complimenting you for somehow channeling the vulnerability and the sweetness beneath the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2015
He fails to realise that people are complimenting him when they call him one, while there were calls for Javier Hernández to start for following his run of game-changing interventions.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2012
"No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin," he observed.
From A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
My blade is rusting in the scabbard, and now that the Emperor and King Francis are complimenting each other like two schoolgirls, it is long likely to remain so.
From Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier by T. G. Marquis
