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backhanded

Part of speech: Adjective

With the hand turned backward; indirect.

Usage examples "backhanded":

So the Watch followed behind and vented its contrition on a mob of boys in occasional backhanded cuffs and current imprecations. - "The Passionate Elopement", Compton Mackenzie.
As I have said that this anecdote was thought worth repeating, I ought to proceed to say that there was, so far as I can recollect, none of that flattery of childhood which is so often merely a backhanded way of indulging the vanity of parents. - "Father and Son", Edmund Gosse.
Angular, slightly backhanded, and full of character, it would be difficult to imitate it, and, too, no one would have any reason to forge that letter to Mrs. Reeves. - "Vicky Van", Carolyn Wells.