Usually means: Indirect, insincere compliment with insult.
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  1. backhanded: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. backhanded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backhanded: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backhanded: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backhanded: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backhanded, backhanded: Wordnik
  7. backhanded: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backhanded: Wiktionary
  9. backhanded: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backhanded: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backhanded: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Backhanded, backhanded: Dictionary.com
  13. backhanded: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Backhanded: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. backhanded: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. backhanded: Rhymezone
  17. Backhanded: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. backhanded: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. backhanded: Free Dictionary
  20. backhanded: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. backhanded: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. backhanded: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. backhanded: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. backhanded: Legal dictionary

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  1. backhanded: Encyclopedia

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  1. backhanded: Idioms

(Note: See backhand as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  With the back of the hand.
adjective:  Involving a backward flip of the hand.
adjective:  Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
adjective:  Indirect.
adjective:  Backwards, turned around.
adjective:  (of writing) inclining to the left
adjective:  Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
adjective:  Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
adverb:  In a backhanded manner.

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