Dictionary Definition
backhanded adj
1 (of racket strokes) made across the body with
back of hand facing direction of stroke [syn: backhand(a)]
[ant: forehand(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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
Translations
With the hand turned backward
- Icelandic: bakhandar-, gerður með handarbakinu , gerð með handarbakinu , gert með handarbakinu
Indirect; awkward
- Icelandic: klunnalegur , klunnaleg , klunnalegt ; klaufskur , klaufsk , klaufskt
Turned back
Of writing
- Icelandic: hallandi til vinstri
Verb
backhanded- past of backhand
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms 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