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Перевод: backhanded

[прилагательное]
нанесенный тыльной стороной руки; с уклоном влево; косой; двусмысленный; неискренний; обратный; противоположный обычному направлению

Тезаурус:

1. Culley pulled on the man's hair as if it were a bell rope, backhanded him across the throat again, then clamped his hand over Schmidt's mouth.
2. At the end of a scientific lecture, C. P. Snow once received a backhanded compliment from his chairman who said, "We all knew Raman spectroscopy was complicated, but did not realise how complicated until we heard Snow's talk".
3. The man hit him, left hand, backhanded; he was wearing a weighted glove.
4. It was a backhanded compliment, the best he could do, and he straightened up and nodded to her before taking his cup from the counter and making his way towards an empty table.
5. The data might be read as a backhanded success for the Thatcher government.
6. Piper slammed into the oak pillar; in the same moment, Ellwood hit him backhanded.
7. Aileron forces are fine at low speeds, but as the IAS increases they get heavier, despite their balance tabs, until at 250 knots, using one's biceps most efficiently, one can just achieve an acceptable roll-rate of sixty or so degrees per second to the left, while backhanded right rolls are truly slow rolls.
8. "People said I was brave setting up a company at such a time," recalls Mr Chambers, adding "Brave" is a backhanded way of saying "You're mad"."
9. It is a backhanded note of dismissal, an explanation that is really an excuse.
10. He watched the old man fit another piece of bait on his line and flick the hook backhanded through the air.
11. Dame Edna would probably think it a caring, sharing sort of suit, and would doubtless lob a backhanded compliment Sally's way, possums.
12. I don't give a damn about Ivan's ridiculous rag, said Charles, but of course he did, he cared much more than she did, and with reason, for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment, whereas Charles always got it in the neck: "HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG" had been the headline of Ivan's latest piece of gossip, which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors, laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge.
13. In a flash, Mait backhanded Ace across the jaw, knocking her to the ground.