Definitions For Backhandedness

Noun

BACKHANDEDNESS (uncountable) The quality of being backhanded The use of a backward flip of the hand. {{quote-book, en, title=Bud Collins' tennis encyclopedia, author=Bud Collins; Zander Hollander, year=1997, page=xix, passage=Bjorn Borg, 18, wins French, and the three of them change the game, guiding the world to two-fisted backhandedness.}} insincerity, insincerity, irony, or sarcasm. {{quote-book, en, title=Eboracum: The Village, author=Graham Clews, year=2007, page=98, ISBN=1425119999, passage=The backhandedness of the compliment suddenly struck him, and he squeezed his eyes shut at the gaffe.}} indirection, indirection. {{quote-book, en, title=Statistics As Principled Argument, author=Robert P. Abelson, year=2012, page=10, ISBN=1135694419, passage=The backhandedness of this procedure reflects the fact that null hypothesis tests are motivated by rhetorical considerations.}} (of writing) leftward, leftward slant. {{quote-book, en, title=Kadmos - Volumes 34-35, author=Ernst Grumach, year=1995, page=58, passage=If it is, as one supposes, the same scribe who wrote the verso, his backhandedness had been cured by putting the tablet in a better position.}} Backwardness of direction. {{quote-book, en, title=Bibliotheca Sacra - Volume 75, year=1918, page=540, passage=It would be easy to draw a popular conclusion that this backhandedness of the language proves the backwardness of their civilization, and the fact that the Turk ought to go way back and sit down in remote Asia}} deceit, deceit or neglect. {{quote-book, en, title=Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations, author=Howard Jones, year=2010, page=68, ISBN=0807833495, passage=Russell's clandestine attempt to initiate diplomatic contact with the Confederacy left an image of backhandedness that substantiated Seward's direst premonitions about British self-interest.}} {{quote-book, en, title=Over the Border: A Romance, author=Robert Barr, year=1903, page=208, passage=... but I am ever behindhand with my purposing, and remember a project when it is too late to put it into action. Many a fight that same backhandedness has led me into.}}