Of course, it could be his backhanded way of teaching me French.

Here the sense of creation comes in a backhanded way.

Nobody can be proud of the backhanded way Congress raises its members' salaries.

It may have worked in a backhanded way this time, but what will happen down the road is anybody's guess.

In a weird backhanded way, it made him feel quite comfortable with Benin.

Moreover, editors are likely to blunt the criticism in a backhanded way.

In a backhanded way, even the stock market is helping the economy.

So, I'm grateful in a sort of backhanded way.

She had done everything properly but in a backhanded way.

In a "backhanded way," he observes with some amusement, this has made him a radical.