side-handed

Lightning drew in on his tail and I gave my lariat a side-handed pitch.

Mallory tensed, and as the policeman passed the door, he stepped out, brought his hand over and down in a side-handed blow to the base of the neck that had every ounce of power in his shoulders behind it.

When she appeared again, she made some side-handed inquiries regarding Otto (with that gentle artifice oft employed by women); but he was gone.

... with side-handed or expanding batons, so as to provide police officers with better protection against assaults by criminals.