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

You're damning them with faint praise if you think they're only 'pretty good. '

"They are the most popular apple," he said, damning the apples with faint praise.

In addition, its numbers are tilted toward the show's first half, which has the effect of damning his efforts since 1970 with faint representation.

Which sounds like damning with faint praise but there are no two ways around it.

My own wife, and she damns me with her accusations.

My grandmother's knack for damning with faint praise can't have helped the marriage.

The professor had always been polite about her clothes, but there was such a thing as damning with faint praise.

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

She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies.