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Meanings of backhanded way in English

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Usage of backhanded way in English
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Which was my backhanded way of reminding them they owed me the world.
Mortal Allies
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It's a backhanded way of telling the sport's organizers to go suck eggs.
Wired
3
In a backhanded way, there was truth behind its fawning.
The Guardian
4
Yes, and the backhanded way in which you did that!
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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My grandmother had the most backhanded way of delivering compliments.
Gunn's golden rules
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Which was my brother's backhanded way of telling me what he thought of me.
Cold Days
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That's what they would call it, as a backhanded way of suggesting we are naïve.
Anathem
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It's just another backhanded way airlines make money. (The author is a Reuters contributor.
Reuters
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According to those cynics, it's just a backhanded way of promoting the Howe name-andtherefore the Lincoln Howe candidacy.
The abduction
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Gradually he becomes, in a backhanded way, a kind of innocuous celebrity, like a third rate novelist or six-day bike-rider.
The new yorker
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