Sentences with backhanded
back·hand·ed
B b - 'Even my good reviews have tended to be back-handed compliments,' he says. 'They'll say I was good and "almost unbearably grotesque".'.
- In a backhanded way, I think a lot of my energy and strength comes from my campaigning.
- Now that they're back, the Magpies can take the hostility as a backhanded compliment.
- It was a backhanded compliment that police in trouble sought him.
- A backhanded compliment
- A backhanded compliment
- The singer could be making a backhanded reference to Say You Will.
- The backhanded tribute hints at the extent and complexity of a contribution beyond what might usually be expected of a state RSL leader.
- A backhanded catch
- Some casters can do a cross-body or backhanded cast quite effectively.
- Don't mistake this for even a backhanded compliment; that at least takes a wry sense of imagination. This is a patronizing compliment, which is worse than no compliment at all.
- 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.
- No one ever believed that Leif meant any harm, but all the luck he brought was backhanded.
- 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;
- . . . 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- He hit him backhand across the face.
- She returned the ball backhand on the first serve.