Example sentences for: backhanded

How can you use “backhanded” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rauch strikes back, gleeful in his further discovery of docudramatic distortion in Reich's backhanded self-aggrandizement.

  • Moreover, editors are likely to blunt the criticism in a backhanded way.

  • is like any hiatus in hostilities, a backhanded concession to the victim: a hearty breakfast for a condemned man."

  • But to have a gentle black giant hang his head and say "Yes, Boss," while almost every guard in a Louisiana prison circa 1935 is portrayed as a forward-thinking, tolerant humanist is the biggest backhanded slap I've seen in a studio movie in a long time.

  • Professor Ashley writes: “I cannot pretend to do justice in one section here to a subject that George R. Stewart almost failed to cover adequately in his Names on the Globe .’ That turns out to be a backhanded compliment, but Professor Stewart himself, an author who showed us all what could be done by way of literary style in his Names on the Land , would never have written such a sentence.


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