"back-handed" meaning in English

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          "word": "back-handedly"
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          "word": "back-handedness"
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          "ref": "2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, →ISBN, page 141:",
          "text": "He had knocked me to the ground with one back-handed punch.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, The Sportswoman's Library, Volume 2:",
          "text": "For the back-handed stroke, the grip is changed.",
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          "ref": "2008, Mick Wall, W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose, →ISBN, page 121:",
          "text": "Axl took this as a back-handed compliment and was momentarily placated.",
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          "ref": "1996, Huma Ibrahim, Bessie Head: Subversive Identities in Exile, →ISBN, page 200:",
          "text": "She did not write about South Africa, except in a back-handed way",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Herb Williams, Only the Faces Change (A High School Odyssey), →ISBN, page 135:",
          "text": "Spiral notebooks with wire binders are also a pain in the a** (arm) because the wire coils are always on the left, so consequently left-handed people have to write with their hand resting on the wire, or in some exaggerated, contorted back-handed position.",
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          "ref": "2010, Lauren Reaville, Barefoot Through the Stubble, →ISBN, page 254:",
          "text": "A good bargain was considered equitable and fair; a back-handed cheat was beyond par.",
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          "text": "He had knocked me to the ground with one back-handed punch.",
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          "text": "For the back-handed stroke, the grip is changed.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1996, Huma Ibrahim, Bessie Head: Subversive Identities in Exile, →ISBN, page 200:",
          "text": "She did not write about South Africa, except in a back-handed way",
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          "text": "Spiral notebooks with wire binders are also a pain in the a** (arm) because the wire coils are always on the left, so consequently left-handed people have to write with their hand resting on the wire, or in some exaggerated, contorted back-handed position.",
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