[syn: underhand, underhanded, underarm]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Underhanded \Un"der*hand`ed\, a.
1. Underhand; clandestine.
[1913 Webster]
2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers;
short-handed; sparsely populated; obsolete in this sense,
short-handed or understaffed being the preferrred
term.
[1913 Webster +JG]
Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is
much underhanded now. --Coleridge.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
underhanded
adj 1: marked by deception; "achieved success in business only
by underhand methods" [syn: sneaky, underhand,
underhanded]
2: with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level;
"an underhand pitch"; "an underhand stroke" [syn:
underhand, underhanded, underarm] [ant: overarm,
overhand, overhanded]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "underhanded":
amoral, artful, back-door, backstairs, calculating, chiseling,
clandestine, collusive, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, covert,
covinous, crafty, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful,
devious, dishonest, dishonorable, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous,
evasive, false, falsehearted, feline, felonious, finagling, fishy,
fraudulent, furtive, guileful, hidlings, hole-and-corner,
hugger-mugger, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indirect, insidious,
not kosher, privy, questionable, quiet, rotten, scheming, shady,
shameless, sharp, shifty, sinister, skulking, slinking, slinky,
slippery, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious,
suspicious, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two-faced,
unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, under-the-counter,
under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, undermanned,
understaffed, unethical, unobtrusive, unprincipled, unsavory,
unscrupulous, unstraightforward, wily, without remorse,
without shame