damn with faint praise

: to condemn to a punishment or fate

: to condemn vigorously and often irascibly for some real or fancied fault or defect

: to condemn as a failure by public criticism

: the utterance of the word damn as a curse

: a minimum amount or degree (as of care or consideration) : the least bit

: damned

: lacking courage and spirit : cowardly

: weak, dizzy, and likely to faint

: lacking strength or vigor : performed, offered, or accomplished weakly or languidly

: to lose courage or spirit

: to become weak

: to lose consciousness because of a temporary decrease in the blood supply to the brain

: the physiological action of fainting

: to express a favorable judgment of : commend

: to glorify (a god or saint) especially by the attribution of perfections

: to express praise

: an expression of approval : commendation

: worship

: value, merit