praise with faint damns

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)To provide minimalcritique, implying that the criticism is the worst that could be said of someone or something.1885,Henry Augustin Beers,Nathaniel Parker Willis, page194:The former accordingly greeted his book with warm approval, and the latterpraiseditwith faint damns.2015February 21,Blake Morrison, “Blake Morrison on Anthony Burgess the critic — ‘he aspired to know everything’”, inThe Guardian, retrieved3 March 2024:But his emphasis on the novel’s interest in sex was a come-on – a way ofpraisingitwith faint damns.

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