Indirection.
Insincerity, irony, or sarcasm.
Deceit or neglect.
Backwardness of direction.
The use of a backward flip of the hand.
Leftward slant.
demesne.
resources; means.
To debase; to lower; to degrade.
To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset).
To mortify.
To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.