underhanded

Adjective
Synonyms: sneakyunderhandunderarm

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. marked by deception“achieved success in business only by underhand methods”Synonyms: sneakyunderhand
  2. with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level“an underhand pitch”“an underhand stroke”Synonyms: underhandunderarm
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]
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