Similar words: backhand, black hand, go back home, underhanded, handed, red-handed, bare-handed, open-handed. Meaning: adj. 1. (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke 2. roundabout or ambiguous.
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1. Saying she's improved comes over as a backhanded compliment.
2. In a backhanded compliment she said he looked very good for his age.
3. In a backhanded way, I think a lot of my energy and strength comes from my campaigning.
4. It was a backhanded compliment.
5. He was right in a backhanded sort of way.
6. Aristocratic criticism of royal rapacity was a backhanded tribute to that success.
7. The data might be read as a backhanded success for the Thatcher government.
8. The man hit him, left hand, backhanded; he was wearing a weighted glove.
9. This backhanded compliment is, in fact, a tribute to the imagination and commitment of community educators.
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10. The first crisis was a backhanded present from Yeltsin himself.
11. It is a backhanded note of dismissal, an explanation that is really an excuse.
12. That's rather a backhanded compliment.
13. At its best, the idea is a backhanded compliment to discerning older consumers.
14. Attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity.
15. "Even my good reviews have tended to be backhanded compliments," he says. "They'll say I was good and almost unbearably grotesque.".
16. Brown took his usual backhanded jabs at his club yesterday.
17. The profession may have been a backhanded apology for a story that many think skewered his father's misguided sense of authority[sentencedict.com], but it could just as easily be applied to A Moveable Feast.
18. Indeed, the backhanded way the government engineered the disbarment of the 53 rights-defending lawyers can be read as an admission that nothing they had engaged in was wrong.
19. But instead of stopping there, he had to throw yet another backhanded compliment at Kupchak.
20. Of course, there is the occasional miscreant standing in front of the classroom who encourages student failure as a backhanded compliment to his self-declared high standards.
21. Luther saw Zwingli's attempt to "spiritualize" the presence of Christ as a backhanded way of denying Christ's true humanity.
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