job's comforter
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Noun (1)
- someone whose comfort is actually discouragingType of sympathizer, sympathiser
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Job's comforter
a boil. colloquial
From the entry Comforter.
Job's comforter
. (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. (b) A boil. colloquial
From the entry Job.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54