back-handed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.41 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of back-hand
adv
Example Sentences
- "He had knocked me to the ground with one back-handed punch."
- "For the back-handed stroke, the grip is changed."
- "Axl took this as a back-handed compliment and was momentarily placated."
- "She did not write about South Africa, except in a back-handed way"
- "Spiral notebooks with wire binders are also a pain in the a** (arm) because the wire coils are always on the left, so consequently left-handed people have to write with their hand resting on the wire, or in some exaggerated, contorted back-handed position."
- "A good bargain was considered equitable and fair; a back-handed cheat was beyond par."
Inflected Forms
more back-handed (comparative)
most back-handed (superlative)