backhanded

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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. sıfat Involving a backward flip of the hand.

   “Some casters can do a cross-body or backhanded cast quite effectively.”

3. sıfat 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. sıfat 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. sıfat Backwards, turned around.

   “No one ever believed that Leif meant any harm, but all the luck he brought was backhanded.”

6. sıfat 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. sıfat 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. sıfat 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.”

9. fiil simple past and past participle of backhand
10. zarf 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.”