Exempel på backhanded

• I took that as being a somewhat backhanded compliment.

• It is typical that an important subject such as this should so often be the product of so much backhanded scheming.

• That is a kind of backhanded tribute to the work that we have tried to perform.

• There is another point that can be of some assistance—although in a rather backhanded way.

• We felt that to be a somewhat backhanded compliment, but at least it was not an office of profit.

• In a way, that is a backhanded compliment to the council's work to make the heart of our city a more attractive place to visit.

• He gives a nice little hand-out to certain people and then gives them a sort of backhanded smack over the tax allowance on cars.

• I do not think it is so much criticism, as in the nature of a backhanded compliment.

• Backhanded though it was, there could be no greater compliment to the effectiveness of the agency and its leaders.

• Why cannot people stop using the words, "the working man", as a sort of backhanded sneer at management—a sneer at the boss?

• If you really mean that, then say it in the proper way and not in this backhanded way.

• I do not know whether it is a backhanded way of getting rid of me.

• Would that not be a backhanded argument?

• It would be like playing golf backhanded.

• Let us admit that there is a weakness in the scheme and that the higher paid members of the community are being given some backhanded relief.