compliment
 noun
 cumprimento
EN One humiliation had succeeded another: the false smiles of the market sellers, the curvetings and oglings of the barmaids with whom his father flirted, the compliments and encouraging words of his father's friends.
GL Unha humillación sucedera a outra: os falsos sorrisos dos vendedores do mercado, os meneos e as choscadelas das camareiras con que o seu pai galanteara, os cumprimentos e as palabras de ánimo dos amigos deste.
 Fonte: RET (1956)
cortesía
EN But he did not want compliments (most men do, she thought), and she was a little ashamed of her impulse and said nothing while he remarked that perhaps what he was saying did not apply to pictures.
GL Pero el non era amigo das cortesías (ós máis dos homes gústanlles, pensou), e deulle un pouco de vergoña o seu impulso e non dixo nada mentres el observaba que se cadra o que estaba a dicir non se podía aplicar á pintura.
Fonte: CAR (1048)
cumprido
EN His companion thanked him for the compliment; and the child, who had now got astride of his alpenstock, stood looking about him, while he attacked a second lump of sugar.
GL O seu compañeiro agradeceulle o cumprido, e o rapaz, que agora se esquecera do seu caxato de alpinista, quedara en pé diante del mirándoo, mentres atacaba un segundo terrón de azucre.
Fonte: DAI (59)
piropo
EN 'Thank you for the compliment,' I said --suave as hell.
GL --Gracias polo piropo --dixen suave coma o demo--.
Fonte: VIX (2160)
transitive verb
felicitar
EN All I can say is, I try to do my duty; and if you try to do yours, I can't compliment you on your success.
GL Todo o que podo dicir é, eu trato de cumpri-lo meu deber; e, se vostede trata de cumpri-lo seu, daquela, se triunfase, non o podería felicitar.
Fonte: FAB (63)
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completion, complex, complexion, complexity, compliance, complicate, complicated, complication, complicity, compliment, complot, comply, component, compose, composer, composite, composition, compositor, compost