音标:['bæk'hændid] ;
a. 间接的
s. roundabout or ambiguous

考试类型:[GRE]
词性分布:
形容词100%

backhanded的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. He reached his goal with a backhanded and dishonest way.他以间接的、不诚实的方法达到目标。
  2. That's rather a backhanded compliment.那倒是一则挖苦的恭维话。
  3. Brown took his usual backhanded jabs at his club yesterday.布朗昨天在他的酒吧习惯性的在背后说别人的坏话。

词汇搭配

  • backhanded compliment言不由衷的恭维话...

经典引文

  • Is it a backhanded compliment to say that this actor is best when maddest?

    出自:K. Tynan
【近义词】

backhanded adj 反手击的;间接的;拐弯抹角的 【反】forthright(adj 直接的)

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(267) / 评论(0) 分类 不择手段背单词

英语学习笔记: right handed/left handed 右撇子/左撇子 fun killer 扫兴的人 left and right 到处都是 right-hand man 左臂右膀 I have two left feet 我手脚不协调,不会跳舞 left-handed compliment 表面恭维,实际嘲讽

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(290) / 评论(0) 分类 早安英文
学英语单词
ababa mantle cloth
air fare
animal-germ layer
Arasāvān
arationality
as sulb
astro-
attestation reports
aulacolambrus hoplonotus
backed for bail
blending wort
bomber-carrier
boxless
bromoplatinic acid
building surveying
Bustinza
Caudies
classified account
co-
confuddle
corps area
cosmic ray burst
cowy flavor
cupolar
dismays
do a dry
dreamy
Dzodze
Europatent
fatness ratio
feeding section
feldspathic limburgite
fighter intercepter
fish-kettle
fling on
form-speckle
frowsiest
genus Cyclops
Ghassoulite
IFORL
inferior thyroid ganglia
iron reinforcement
it's all one to me
Itori
jack-carrying frame
Kijosi
lafarges
leading on to
leucite hills
livvest
low-headed
luctuosus
macrocolumn
manganesane
metal-sheatheds
minas geraces cotton
mini-phone jack
modified-default form definition
modulation theorem
MOX (mixed oxide fuel)
necesita
nonrelatives
normal compact operator
normal frequency distribution
nuclei intercalatus
on-the-flies
operator reference manual
Osakarovka
output of the object program
overbubbling
oxeclosporin
pechenga
periphrased
PHEATHONTIDAE
photoreconnaissance satellite
Prontor
Qarah Dāgh
rabble a bath
radial feed servo
rafi
refractory metal carbide
rejectionistic
risk of oil
salicylic
Salvia clarea
single-sided ventilation
sizing shaker
somatobiology
staircase iteration
suppurative apoplexy
thallium(iii) bisulfate
through an experiment
TORGOSUS
typewriter console monitor
United Nations Economic Commission on Transnational Corporations
Vagosin
vena dividens
Villavieja de Yeltes
vincibler
WAP phone
warmed up to
zalloy