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Backhanded   /bˈækhˌændəd/  /bˈækhˌændɪd/   Listen
adjective
Backhanded  adj.  
1.
With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.
2.
Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment.
3.
Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, backhanded letters.


backhanded  adj., adv.  (Sport) Stroked with a backhand (2); as, a backhanded drive.





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"Backhanded" Quotes from Famous Books



... fulsome for French gallantry to invent finding space in the foremost French newspapers; hoping, praying, beseeching the help of Russia, when Germany makes up her mind to gobble France, yet dealing Russian achievement a backhanded slap by hinting what a compliment it is for a cultivated, accomplished, over-cultured race like the French to beg the assistance of a barbarous country ...
— As Seen By Me • Lilian Bell
... Inch or an Inch and a half broad. this chissel has sometimes a large block of wood for a handle; they grasp the chissel just below the block with the right hand holding the edge down while with the left they take hold of the top of the block and strike backhanded against the wood with the edge of the chissel. a person would suppose that the forming of a large canoe with an instrument like this was the work of several years; but these people make them in a few weeks. they ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... knights, rode out with levelled lance to meet him. At full gallop the knights charged each other. Sir Ingram's spear was pointed at the bars of Archie's helmet, but as the horses met each other Archie with a blow of his sword cut off the head of the lance and dealt a tremendous backhanded blow upon Sir Ingram's helmet as the latter passed him, striking the knight forward on to his horse's neck; then without pausing a moment he dashed into the midst of the ...
— In Freedom's Cause • G. A. Henty


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