Meaning of backhandedness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being backhanded
   uncountable
2. The use of a backward flip of the hand.
   uncountable
3. Insincerity, irony, or sarcasm.
   uncountable
4. Indirection.
   uncountable
5. Leftward slant.
   uncountable
6. Backwardness of direction.
   uncountable
7. Deceit or neglect.
   uncountable

Examples

“Bjorn Borg, 18, wins French, and the three of them change the game, guiding the world to two-fisted backhandedness.”

“The backhandedness of the compliment suddenly struck him, and he squeezed his eyes shut at the gaffe.”

“The backhandedness of this procedure reflects the fact that null hypothesis tests are motivated by rhetorical considerations.”

“If it is, as one supposes, the same scribe who wrote the verso, his backhandedness had been cured by putting the tablet in a better position.”

“It would be easy to draw a popular conclusion that this backhandedness of the language proves the backwardness of their civilization, and the fact that the Turk ought to go way back and sit down in remote Asia”

“Russell's clandestine attempt to initiate diplomatic contact with the Confederacy left an image of backhandedness that substantiated Seward's direst premonitions about British self-interest.”

“... but I am ever behindhand with my purposing, and remember a project when it is too late to put it into action. Many a fight that same backhandedness has led me into.”

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