faint praise

Faint praise for what was supposed to have been a serious scientific work!

Faint praise, I know, but remember the context: talk radio.

I don't mean this as faint praise; there's a lot of competition.

Maybe I could have used a glossary of faint praise.

Airline officials this evening generally gave the agreement at least faint praise.

But for all the hoopla, it still might be called faint praise.

But not every red-blooded Republican was able to offer even faint praise.

That was faint praise indeed because Boeheim had a fine season.

But does that mean faint praise is all there is to be given?

Which in an age of interchangeable American collections is not faint praise.

This is not faint praise but a description of the work's prime virtues.

Rather muddy, she calls it; fainter praise would be hard to imagine.

If that adjective seems to suggest faint praise, it isn't meant to.

He laughed, briefly, quietly, at that last word, such faint praise indeed.

At the time, I felt damned with faint praise.

Yet his statement was a master class in the art of damning with faint praise.

"I think the chair umpire called the score well today," Washington would say later, with faint praise.

Your comment is the very definition of damning with faint praise.

It's also damning by faint praise, but, seriously, what else is in the running?

I'm sick of this faint praise for Roger who is a tennis phenomenon.

Even Spin's recent cover story on the band mustered only faint praise.

That may sound like faint praise, but the particle physicists have reason to be wary.