List of synonyms from "backdrop" to synonyms from "backing and fill"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms backfire, backed and fill, backhanded, backed to the salt mines, background music, backed off and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
- Backdrop
- Backed
- Backed and fill
- Backed at you
- Backed fill
- Backed off
- Backed out
- Backed to the salt mines
- Backed up
- Backed wrong horse
- Backed you
- Backer
- Backfire
- Backflow
- Background
- Background material
- Background music
- Backgrounds
- Backhanded
- Backhanded compliment
- Backhandeds
- Backhoe
- Backing
- Backing and fill
Definition of the day : « backhanded »
- adj underhanded
- “I sympathize with you,” he said by way of backhanded congratulation.
- Extract from : « Joan of Arc of the North Woods » by Holman Day
- Whatever this might mean, it was, at best, a backhanded compliment to Hartigan.
- Extract from : « The Preacher of Cedar Mountain » by Ernest Thompson Seton
- Glyddyr turned upon him, and made a backhanded blow at his face.
- Extract from : « King of the Castle » by George Manville Fenn
- A backhanded compliment of the acutest nature is credited to Lincoln as a lawyer and gentleman.
- Extract from : « The Lincoln Story Book » by Henry L. Williams
- Lake slapped him across the mouth with a backhanded blow that snapped his head back on his shoulders and split his lip.
- Extract from : « Space Prison » by Tom Godwin
- Mr. Hethcote declined to be reminded of his duties as a middle-aged gentleman in this backhanded manner.
- Extract from : « The Fallen Leaves » by Wilkie Collins
- She caught hold of his arm, but Jim, still kneeling on his wife, gave Polly a backhanded blow which sent her staggering back.
- Extract from : « Liza of Lambeth » by W. Somerset Maugham
- It is no backhanded compliment to say that he has never improved upon the profusion or the quaintness of its humor.
- Extract from : « Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books » by E. F. (Edward Francis) Harkins
- When Clare stooped to ask what he should do for him, he struck him a backhanded blow on the face that knocked him over.
- Extract from : « A Rough Shaking » by George MacDonald
- With a muted roar, Adam swept his powerful arm in a backhanded arc that caught Brute full on the side of his head.
- Extract from : « Rebels of the Red Planet » by Charles Louis Fontenay