Meaning of BACKHANDED
| Pronunciation: | | 'bak`handid
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- [adj] roundabout or ambiguous; "attacks from tht source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity"; "a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal"
- [adj] (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
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| | Synonyms: | | backhand(a), indirect |
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| | Antonyms: | | forehand(a), forehanded | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Back"hand`ed\, a.
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, a backhanded
letters.
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| | Related Terms: | | abusive, ambagious, atrocious, backhand, calumnious, circuitous, circular, contumelious, deflectional, degrading, deviant, deviating, deviative, devious, digressive, discursive, divagational, divergent, excursive, helical, humiliating, indirect, insolent, insulting, left-handed, meandering, oblique, offensive, orbital, O-shaped, out-of-the-way, outrageous, rotary, round, roundabout, scurrile, scurrilous, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, spiral, unspeakable |
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