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backhanded

English

  1. 🔊 roundabout or ambiguous
    “attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity”
  2. 🔊 (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke

Similar words

backhand(a) o-shaped abusive ambagious atrocious backhand calumnious circuitous circular contumelious deflectional degrading deviant deviating deviative devious digressive discursive divagational divergent excursive helical humiliating indirect