back-handed
See also: backhanded
English
Adjective
back-handed (comparative more back-handed, superlative most back-handed)
- Alternative form of backhanded
- 2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, →ISBN, page 141:
- 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, →ISBN, page 121:
- Axl took this as a back-handed compliment and was momentarily placated.
- 1996, Huma Ibrahim, Bessie Head: Subversive Identities in Exile, →ISBN, page 200:
- She did not write about South Africa, except in a back-handed way
- 2014, Herb Williams, Only the Faces Change (A High School Odyssey), →ISBN, page 135:
- 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, →ISBN, page 254:
- A good bargain was considered equitable and fair; a back-handed cheat was beyond par.
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Verb
back-handed
- simple past tense and past participle of back-hand
Adverb
back-handed (comparative more back-handed, superlative most back-handed)
- Alternative form of backhanded