Backhanded is valid Scrabble Word

Is backhanded a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is backhanded valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
23 points in Scrabble
25 points in WWF

Definitions for BACKHANDED in dictionary:

VERB:

BACKHAND, to strike with the back of the hand
strike with a backhanded blow or stroke

NOUN:

(in tennis and other racket sports) a stroke played with the back of the hand facing in the direction of the stroke, with the arm across the body
a blow or stroke delivered in a similar way to a backhand in tennis and other racket sports

ADJECTIVE:

With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.
Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment.
Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded letters.
(of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
roundabout or ambiguous

Words related to BACKHANDED

backhand20 backhandedly28 backhandedness27 backhanding24 backhands21

Words that contain BACKHANDED

backhandedly28 backhandedness27

How to use BACKHANDED in a sentence

Then quickly and with a dainty backhanded blow, he rapped Eric beneath his guard so shrewdly that it made his head ring again.
Seeing that his strength was going from him, Robin leaped forward, and, quick as a flash, struck a back-handed blow beneath the sword arm.
Now do the same back-handed, bending the wrist outward, and carrying the club behind the head first.
In the very act of turning I caught him fair with such another back-handed cut as that with which I killed the aide-de-camp of the Emperor of Russia.
Then, like a shot, without turning head or body, merely by my arm I fetched him an open, back-handed slap.
Seeing that he had missed me, he raised the pistol and was about to hurl it at me when the English sergeant, with a single back-handed cut, nearly severed his head from his body.
The taller of the pair reached him first, only to receive a back-handed blow full in his face which sent him reeling a couple of yards.
A soldier on the outer edge of the extended line swings his rifle with swift, backhanded motion over his shoulder, and brings the butt amidst the crowd of carrion.
For myself, though I received only a backhanded blow on the chest, I staggered as if I had been struck with a sledgehammer.

Similar words containing BACKHAND without suffix ed

backhand20 backhands21 backhander22 backhanders23 backhanding24 backhandedly28 backhandedness27

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