backhanded

动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of backhand form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  1. With the back of the hand.
    — The trader roars like an animal whose paw has been caught in a trap, but he hauls back his other arm and lands a backhanded blow to the side of her head that knocks her sideways onto the babushki bench.
  2. Involving a backward flip of the hand.
    — Some casters can do a cross-body or backhanded cast quite effectively.
  3. Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
    — But modesty here is out of the question, and is often the most beggarly and back-handed friend that merit can have in its pay.
  4. Indirect.
    — Only in grade 5 is he mentioned and in this backhanded way: "George Darwin, son of the famous English scientist, Charles Darwin." . . . But for what is Charles Darwin famous? You won't find it in the California elementary science textbooks.
  5. Backwards, turned around.
    — No one ever believed that Leif meant any harm, but all the luck he brought was backhanded.
  6. inclining to the left
    — In this particular instance the writing begins backhanded, and there is a reversion to the right-handed type, -- an unconscious reversion, which makes me think that is the natural method of writing;
  7. Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
    — ...but that is really a backhanded rent, because I have sold all the produce of my farm six months before I am called upon to pay the last six months' rent.
  8. Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
    — Perhaps omitting Weber from footnotes is intended to avenge his backhanded treatment of the American Puritans (and by extension their academic champions), whom he virtually ignored—albeit with unhappy consequences for his own work.
副词 adv.
  1. In a backhanded manner.
    — As the man crumpled forward, Snow took a further step with his right foot and brought the pole down backhanded with all his power into the right side of the man's head.

词形变化

more backhanded comparative most backhanded superlative back-handed alternative more backhanded comparative most backhanded superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
backhanded compliment backhandedly backhandedness

词源

词源 1
From back + hand + -ed.
词源 2
From back + hand + -ed.
词源 3
From back + hand + -ed.
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