Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Underhand.
- Not having an adequate supply of hands; short-handed; sparsely peopled.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Underhand; clandestine.
- adj. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated; obsolete in this sense,
short-handed orunderstaffed being the preferrred term.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level
- adj. marked by deception
Etymologies
- under + handed (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Perkins, worn out, irritated by, if not angry at, what he termed the underhanded lying of the opposition, drove home for luncheon, and found his wife and her mother in a state of high dudgeon.”
The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life
“Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat go a step further in underhanded criticism, comparing the movie to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in an apparent attempt to give it a Christian link and then add, "Naturally, a female is one of the main temptations Will must overcome.”
“If the overstuffed, unzipped, unsealed bags contain more absentee ballots than were recorded on the transmittal sheet, then something underhanded is being attempted.”
Sound Politics: "Ballot-bag problems may slow counting of 8th District votes"
“This kind of underhanded behaviour is the reason that independent bookstores are going out of business. another indie bookseller says:”
[Bumped] Crowdsource this for me: Indigo flaunts the rules to screw small bookstores… more…
“Pelosi comes in for some ridicule about her supposed "underhanded" deals.”
The Huffington Post: Jackie K. Cooper: I Want Your Money Is the Anti-Michael Moore Film
“We do know that there are many out there in the Great Unwashed, though, who aren't really all that swift, and that this kind of underhanded campaign tactic is exactly calibrated to appeal to those in the herd who are susceptible to racist or intollerant messages.”
“In an interview with the French daily Le Figaro published Monday, Mr. Karzai said the United States is using "underhanded" tactics to undermine him.”
“The question some are asking though is whether Anonymous has crossed the line -- whether, in its battle to expose Scientology, it's engaging in the same kind of underhanded tactics it accuses the church of.”
“Let's show them that we're not going to be cowed by the kind of underhanded tactics that should only be used in major political campaigns!”
“Will people put 2 and 2 together and figure out that the same kind of underhanded, slimy and dishonest methodology was used by the veep to drag us into Iraq?”
Think Progress » Libby says he’s being set up to take the fall for Rove.
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you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Favorites
disparage, partisan, cupidity, hokum, tussle, odious, dastardly, overture, plane, chronic, peering, peer and 328 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Words Words and more Words
ruckus, bustle, ominous, odious, abominable, atrocious, appal, abysmal, dismal, calamity, debacle, fiasco and 231 more...
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MEC2 Lesson 127
trial, trainee, overqualified, hold, murder, orient, underhanded, disgusting, uncomfortable, flash, Johnny Carson, authorize and 22 more...
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SAT Words
despotism, inapt, underhanded, ingenue, quiescent, imperceptible, delude, astute, duplicitous, surreptitious, bombastic, mendacious and 10 more...
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handie
handy compounds
beforehand, hamhanded, freehand, handicraft, handmade, handheld, handfull, handiwork, handsew, handmaid, handpicked, panhandle and 42 more...
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