Word info

back-handed

Speech parts

1. back-handed - Adjective

2. back-handed - Verb

3. back-handed - Adverb

Meaning

back-handed (comparative more back-handed, superlative most back-handed)

Alternative form of backhanded

back-handed

simple past and past participle of back-hand

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I would be happy to have a gay child. He would be a Boy Scout, and he would teach all the other Boy Scouts how to build a fire with two sticks and a back-handed compliment. Margaret Cho

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer. Leslie Banks

Scott Schmidt makes a back-handed play on a Southside grounder. Source: Internet

Schaeffer returned the back-handed compliment. Source: Internet

The Wild continued their recent early goal barrage when Eriksson Ek converted a nifty back-handed pass from Jordan Greenway at 6:12 into the game. Source: Internet

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