backhandedness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being backhanded; unfairness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being backhanded; the use of indirect tactics.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

backhanded +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • What I do hope, though, is that after Sammy retires, the Cubs are able to bury the hatchet and honor him appropriately, without any of the backhandedness that they treated him with after Dusty came aboard.

    CubsNet.com 2009

  • What I do hope, though, is that after Sammy retires, the Cubs are able to bury the hatchet and honor him appropriately, without any of the backhandedness that they treated him with after Dusty came aboard.

    CubsNet.com 2009

  • Soembody needs to calibrate this quiz – it obviously doesn’t detect irony and backhandedness . . .

    quiz: how much of a smartass are you? « raincoaster 2007

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