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back-handed en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of backhanded.
   alt of backhanded
   • Axl took this as a back-handed compliment and was momentarily placated. 2008, Mick Wall, W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose, →ISBN, page 121:
   • He had knocked me to the ground with one back-handed punch. 2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, →ISBN, page 141:
   • For the back-handed stroke, the grip is changed. 2014, The Sportswoman's Library, Volume 2:
   • A good bargain was considered equitable and fair; a back-handed cheat was beyond par. 2010, Lauren Reaville, Barefoot Through the Stubble, →ISBN, page 254:
   • She did not write about South Africa, except in a back-handed way 1996, Huma Ibrahim, Bessie Head: Subversive Identities in Exile, →ISBN, page 200:
   • 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. 2014, Herb Williams, Only the Faces Change (A High School Odyssey), →ISBN, page 135:

Forms

Deriveds

back-handedness · back-handedly

back-handed en · ADV

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of backhanded.
   alt of backhanded

Forms

back-handed en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of back-hand
   form of back-hand