back-handed

See also: backhanded

English

Adjective

back-handed (comparative more back-handed, superlative most back-handed)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• back-handedly
• back-handedness

 

Verb

back-handed

1. simple past and past participle of back-hand

Adverb

back-handed (comparative more back-handed, superlative most back-handed)

1. Alternative form of backhanded