Translations for „backhanded“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

backhanded ADJ

1. backhanded remark, compliment:

backhanded

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2. backhanded shot:

backhanded

z bekhendu

backhanded

bekhendowy

backhand N no pl SPORTS

backhand

bekhend m

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I left him temporarily after he backhanded me across the face one night.

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Everything they would say was very backhanded, and they were always bragging about their success.

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The term, which is used in a pejorative or ironic sense, can also be used as a backhanded compliment to someone's perseverance, cleverness, or thrift.

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We can take it as a backhanded compliment, in some ways.

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Like backhanded compliments, sarcasm is a common tool of a passive aggressive child who expresses his hostility aloud, but in socially acceptable, indirect ways.

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Unfortunately, he gives her a cookbook, which is a backhanded gift that shows he wants her to be just like other girls.

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So how should confident women deal with backhanded comments and the men who lob them?

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A backhanded compliment may fool the listener, but the compliment remains backhanded because the speaker is being intentionally slighting and insulting.

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He values honor and despises backhanded means such as assassination.

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Even most of his compliments are backhanded, as you can see...

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