1. backhanded - Adjective
2. backhanded - Verb
3. backhanded - Adverb
4. backhanded - Adjective Satellite
With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.
Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment.
Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded letters.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself. Elvis Costello
I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.' Kate Winslet
I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day. Mel Gibson
My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment. Tori Spelling
attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity Source: Internet
a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal Source: Internet