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meaning of can be damning #1 (permalink) Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:39 am   meaning of can be damning		  
"pretty beautiful" can be damning with faint praise. Its precise nature will be in the tone of voice used.

Could you explain me what the parts in bold mean in this sentence?

In a dictionary, the word damn has a lot of meanings from which I cannot understand this sentence.
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meaning of can be damning #2 (permalink) Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:43 pm   meaning of can be damning		  
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The idiom here is 'damning with faint praise'.
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