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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. marked by deception;
- Example: "achieved success in business only by underhand methods"
[syn: sneaky, underhand, underhanded]

2. with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level;
- Example: "an underhand pitch"
- Example: "an underhand stroke"
[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]