ホメ殺し (ほめごろし) — mockery by means of excessive praise, damning with lavish praise, backhanded compliment | Kakuso

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mockery by means of excessive praise damning with lavish praise and backhanded compliment

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mockery by means of excessive praise, damning with lavish praise, backhanded compliment

ほめころし

殺

kill, murder, butcher...

ころ.す, -ごろ.し, サツ

杀

㐅

木

き, こ-, ボク

殳

pike, windy-again radical (no. 79)

また, ほこ, シュ

几

table, table enclosure, table or windy radical (no. 16)

きにょう, キ

丿

katakana no radical (no. 4)

えい, よう, ヘツ

又

or again, furthermore, on the other hand

また, また-, ユウ

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