backhanded

Completing the motion, Howe pulled the puck back to his own left and backhanded it hard into the open side of the net.

Shawn sat up to say something, and he hauled off and backhanded her across the face.

I realized that the very narrowness of my complaints was backhanded evidence of the enormous amount that the film gets right.

In his heyday, Richards had an eerily clinical and meticulous approach to drug use, a backhanded compliment to be sure.

For these women, “crazy” is a backhanded compliment, a path on the road to fame.

For myself, though I received only a backhanded blow on the chest, I staggered as if I had been struck with a sledgehammer.

Korman backhanded him across the throat without looking around, with such force that Gibson staggered back and fell.

Simms threw the brim of his soft hat up with a backhanded stroke and shook his head.

The writing was what is known as "backhanded," in strokes which appeared at first sight to be of a uniform lightness.

Mikah asked, and one of the guards backhanded him to the ground.