[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

backhanded \back"hand`ed\, a.
   1. with the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.
      1913 webster

   2. indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded
      compliment.
      1913 webster

   3. turned back, or inclining to the left; as, backhanded
      letters.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

backhanded \back"hand`ed\, a.  adv. sport
   stroked with a backhand2; as, a backhanded drive.
   pjc

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

backhanded
     adj 1: of racket strokes made across the body with back of hand
            facing direction of stroke syn: backhanda ant:
            forehanda
     2: roundabout or ambiguous; "attacks from tht source amounted
        to a backhanded compliment to his integrity"; "a
        backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal"
see also:
backhanda forehanda 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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