- Barbed (compliment) - Bracken had become a bribe - Damning kind of praise for rugby player, farm worker and journalist - Double-edged compliment - How many tennis shots are played - With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow. - Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a
backhanded compliment.
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