backhanded

adj. performed with the back of the hand facing out; doubtful; insincere

Adjective
1. (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
(synonym) backhand(a)
2. roundabout or ambiguous; "attacks from tht source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity"; "a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal"
(similar) indirect

Noun
1. a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke
(synonym) backhand stroke, backhand shot
(hypernym) return
(hyponym) two-handed backhand
Verb
1. hit a tennis ball backhand
(hypernym) hit
(derivation) backhand stroke, backhand shot
Adjective
1. (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
(synonym) backhand(a), backhanded
(antonym) forehand(a), forehanded
2. (of handwriting) having the letters slanting from left down to right
(synonym) left-slanting
(similar) written
(classification) handwriting

(a.)
With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.
  

(a.)
Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded letters.
  

(a.)
Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment.
  

Synonyms and related words:
O-shaped, 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, out-of-the-way, outrageous, rotary, round, roundabout, scurrile, scurrilous, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, spiral, unspeakable,
  

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