side-handed adjective 4adverb 2 adjective4 •Done with the side of the hand.It was a clumsy, side-handed, chopping blow, but Louis was unprepared for it. — 1983 •Indirect; subtle.When she appeared again, she made some side-handed inquiries regarding Otto (with that gentle artifice oft employed by women); but he was gone. — 1869 •Sideways from the hand.Lightning drew in on his tail and I gave my lariat a side-handed pitch. — 2004 •(UK) Expanding.... with side-handed or expanding batons, so as to provide police officers with better protection against assaults by criminals. — 1993 adverb2 •Sideways.Wading upstream, it was obvious I would have to cast side-handed and under-handed, with an occasional bow-and-arrow "shot." — 1972 •Using the side of the hand.As the gunman spluttered, Towler continued the momentum of his hand to catch the man side-handed in the windpipe and, with his other hand, struck him hard in the crotch. — 1992
