anticlockwise vs backhanded

anticlockwise

adv
  • In an anticlockwise fashion. 

adj
  • in a circular fashion so as to be moving to the left at the top of the circle and to the right at the bottom (when viewed from the front), in the opposite direction to the way the hands of an analogue clock move. 

backhanded

adv
  • In a backhanded manner. 

adj
  • inclining to the left 

  • Indirect. 

  • With the back of the hand. 

  • Backwards, turned around. 

  • Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance. 

  • Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful. 

  • Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory. 

  • Involving a backward flip of the hand. 

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