Damned By Faint Praise: Difference between revisions

 

Related to many [[Insult Tropes]]; can be the result of a [[Compliment Backfire]]. May take the form of an [[Overly Narrow Superlative]] or a [[Trivially Obvious]] statement. See also [[So Okay It's Average]] and [[You Are a Credit to Your Race]]. Contrast with [[Stealth Insult]], which also damns people through "praise" - in that case, though, the praise is illusionary rather than merely weak.

 

== [[Advertising]] ==

* Chevrolet runs a TV commercial where it shows all of the cars it makes that get better EPA estimated mileage than the equivalent Honda. At the end of the commercial, the announcer says, "There's one thing Honda makes that we can't compete with. It's even self-propelled," and the camera pans down to show a Honda lawnmower.