Is there a rhetorical term for remarks like "you're exactly what I've come to expect from..."?

Is there a specific term for a statement that uses words such that their precise meaning conveys a subtext contrary to the colloquial meaning?

For example, the joke in Men in Black:

Gentlemen, congratulations. You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training.

where the precise use of the words conveys a sarcastic meaning (ie that the candidates are inept because that's what he's come to expect from government training).

I was going to use "irony" to describe this but then realized this is basically the opposite of irony - the use of words to convey their literal intention, when a nonliteral intention was expected.

Solution 1:

These are known as backhanded compliments or left-handed compliments or asteisms

From Wikipedia:

Backhanding is slap using the back of the hand as opposed to the palm. A backhanded compliment, also known as a left-handed compliment or asteism, is an insult that is disguised as a compliment. Sometimes, a backhanded compliment may be inadvertent. However, the term usually connotes an intent to belittle or condescend.

And from Wiktionary:

asteism: Polite irony; a genteel and ingenious manner of deriding another.