Backhanded

Quick meaning: Backhanded is an adjective meaning With the back of the hand.

Meaning

With the back of the hand.

More Meanings

1. Involving a backward flip of the hand.
2. Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
3. Indirect.
4. Backwards, turned around.
5. (of writing) inclining to the left
6. Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
7. Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.

Example Sentences

Some casters can do a cross-body or backhanded cast quite effectively.

With your palm facing down, your wrist snaps forward. This is the same type of motion used for the backhanded change-up.

But modesty here is out of the question, and is often the most beggarly and back-handed friend that merit can have in its pay.

But on this particular occasion I was fired on as an individual by an entire battery of enemy artillery, and for some odd and backhanded reason I felt important.

Word Forms

• back-handed

Synonyms for backhanded

Depending on context, synonyms include backhand.

Antonyms for backhanded

Common opposites include forehanded.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include side-handed, underhanded, fullhanded, under-handed, back-to-back, uphanded.

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