underhanded
About 0.15 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Done by moving the hand (and arm) from below.
- adjective Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.
His underhanded trick backfired and he was disqualified.
- adjective Insincere; sarcastic.
An underhanded compliment is actually criticism.
- adjective Secret; surreptitious.
- adjective Understaffed.
- adverb In an underhanded manner.
- noun Devious people, collectively.
- verb simple past and past participle of underhand
Similar words
sneaky corrupt crooked underarm sly overlapping under-handed backhanded uphand side-handed
Often followed by
and way methods tactics means dealings ways or manner
Word family
underhandedly underhandedness underhandednesses
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