Quotes About Backhanded

On 'Veep,' people are connecting with each other, even if they're making backhanded comments about somebody behind someone else's back.

Ignorance and evil, even in full flight, deal terrible backhanded      strokes at their pursuers.—HELPS.

And sometimes a Pearl of the Orient could be a Paris of the Orient as well. The Parisians and the French and just about everyone meant that as a compliment, but it was a backhanded compliment, the only kind a colonizer could give to the colonized.