Crossword-Solution: BACKHAND 8 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

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Word Word Type Definition
Backhand n. A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the
letters is from left to right.
Backhand a. Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.
Backhand a. Backhanded; indirect; oblique.

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BACKHAND anagram HACKBAND, HANDBACK

We have 8 clues for the answer “BACKHAND”

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Certain squash shot 1 answer
Djokovic stroke 1 answer
a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke 1 answer
stroke played with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke 1 answer
Kind of tennis stroke 2 answers
Certain tennis stroke 3 answers
Tennis stroke 10 answers
Tennis term 19 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with BACKHAND (5)

From the moment he caught sight of her, he did not turn or take his eyes and face from her, defending himself with backhand blows.
Four Arthurian Romances Chrétien de Troyes 1997
And on the wall of another closet there was written in backhand in beautiful writing: _Julius Cæsar wrote The Calico Belly._ Perhaps that was why they were there because it was a place where some fellows wrote things for cod.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 2001
There is, alack! always some intimate friend who sees, who dabbles her pen in the ink-well and labors over a backhand stroke.
Half a Rogue Harold MacGrath 2003
The capitals differed, so did the tails of the y's and f's; the backhand slant was not always slanting, but frequently leaned toward the opposite angle.
Half a Rogue Harold MacGrath 2003
Louis Globe-Democrat, and a large number of sheets, closely written in a backhand, was signed "Yours truly, Jim Cummings." It stated, in substance, that the robbery had been carefully planned some time before the occurrence.
Jim Cummings Frank Pinkerton 2004

Quotes with BACKHAND (3)

Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feelcheap for doingexactly what they beg for. The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true. The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricotwhen the peach blushes and bruises. These things make me believe God's a man after all.
Ellen Hopkins Crank
Well, in the meantime, Carter and I have been discussing the matter of Ryan." This time it wasn't the clang of a pan I heard, but instead a messy smack--the contact of Carter's backhand with Dean's head, I presumed. "Just hear me out. You have options. I have an Italian uncle. He'll make sure Ryan is sleeping with the fishes by next week.""Dean!" Unable to repress my amusement, my eyes flew wide and my grin grew." Either that, or we can go all Sweeney Todd on him and--""Oh, w…
Rachael Wade Preservation
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.
E. B. White
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1980–2019).