comforter : Idioms & Phrases
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Job's comforter
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noun someone whose comfort is actually discouraging
WordNet
- a boil. Colloq.
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(a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes.(b) A boil . Colloq.
Webster 1913
Lip comforter
- one who comforts with words only.
