Do you comsider a backhanded compliment to still be a compliment.?

well yeah i guess it is still a compliment... life is full of surprises.. and i would love to know that that person is surprised that i am better than what he/she thinks... i would love to take it that way... and from that, he/she will know that i am not the person he/she thinks to be.. lol

If it's more to sarcasm than compliment, I'll probably snapped. We can differentiate well whether it's true or not. But, I am never the one that take compliments well. I often see them as teasing or just being sarcastic about something. My friends do that a lot. Of course there are some who give genuine compliments and I will accept it.

hi sender621 ues and no , if its one of those where a person is complimenting a person with you, then just casually says to me."oh your hair is nice too" no, that was about as sincere as cold butter on a ]hot day not melting. no I do not even acknowledge it at all.not thanks. why thank someone for saying you hair is nice in a phony smuggest voice. to me a compliment is given directly to me as a person, not as an also ran.back handed means I had to be polite as this person was with the one I complimented so I must be polite to the poor homely soul.

Hey sender! I don't really think that a backhanded compliment is really a compliment at all! When you think about it it is more like an insult wrapped in a "sort of compliment"! So does that make it an actual compliment? Not really sure about that! Great question though!

In fact, i find it hard to regard backhanded compliment as a real compliment. But i still say "thank you" in such situations out of politeness.