• Back-handed

    Full definition of back-handed

    Adjective

    back-handed

      • 2005 , Thomas Brent Andrews , The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs , He had knocked me to the ground with one back-handed punch.
      • 2014 , The Sportswoman's Library, Volume 2 , For the back-handed stroke, the grip is changed.
      • 2008 , Mick Wall , W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose , Axl took this as a back-handed compliment and was momentarily placated.
      • 1996 , Huma Ibrahim , Bessie Head: Subversive Identities in Exile , She did not write about South Africa, except in a back-handed way
      • 2014 , Herb Williams , Only the Faces Change (A High School Odyssey) , Spiral notebooks with wire binders are also a pain in the a** (arm) because the wire coils are always on the left, so consequently left-handed people have to write with their hand resting on the wire, or in some exaggerated, contorted back-handed position.
      • 2010 , Lauren Reaville , Barefoot Through the Stubble , A good bargain was considered equitable and fair; a back-handed cheat was beyond par.

    Verb

    verb form

    1. back-handed

      (past of back-hand)

    Adverb

    back-handed

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