All 3 Uses of
complimentary
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Wakem was not without this parenthetic vindictiveness toward the uncomplimentary miller; and now Mrs. Tulliver had put the notion into his head, it presented itself to him as a pleasure to do the very thing that would cause Mr. Tulliver the most deadly mortification,— and a pleasure of a complex kind, not made up of crude malice, but mingling with it the relish of self-approbation.†
Chpt 3.7 *
- "That sounds complimentary," said Stephen, looking at his watch.†
Chpt 6.1 *
- She warned him that she could not dance anything but a country-dance; but he, of course, was willing to wait for that high felicity, meaning only to be complimentary when he assured her at several intervals that it was a "great bore" that she couldn't waltz, he would have liked so much to waltz with her.†
Chpt 6.10
Definitions:
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(complimentary as in: complimentary remarks) expressing praise or admiration -- as from a compliment
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(complimentary as in: a complimentary upgrade) costing nothing