backhanded

backhanded
    adj 1: (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of
           hand facing direction of stroke [syn: {backhand(a)},
           {backhanded}] [ant: {forehand(a)}, {forehanded}]
    2: roundabout or ambiguous; "attacks from that source amounted
       to a backhanded compliment to his integrity"; "a backhanded
       and dishonest way of reaching his goal"
    

Backhanded \Back"hand`ed\, a.
   1. With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.
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   2. Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded
      compliment.
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   3. Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, backhanded
      letters.
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backhanded \back"hand`ed\, a. & adv. (Sport)
   Stroked with a backhand[2]; as, a backhanded drive.
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43 Moby Thesaurus words for "backhanded":
      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