cold comfort

noun

: quite limited sympathy, consolation, or encouragement

Examples of cold comfort in a Sentence

The good news about the economy is cold comfort to people who have lost their jobs.

Recent Examples on the Web Perhaps that’s cold comfort to the CEOs who are getting nervous about their own utility, and whether they themselves might one day be replaced. —

Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 June 2024 The presence of a backup driver is a cold comfort to someone who is injured, or loses a loved one, because an autonomous vehicle went on the fritz. —

Curtis Tate, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2024 But that will be cold comfort to some in the British legal system who have argued U.S. prisons are so inherently cruel that sending Assange to America, even with such a guarantee, would still amount to an inhumane act. —

Matt Novak / Gizmodo, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024 But that will be cold comfort to the players who can’t stay afloat. —

David Meyer, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cold comfort

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