Underhanded

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  underhanded
       adj 1: marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by
              underhand methods" [syn: {sneaky}, {underhand}]
       2: with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level;
          "an underhand pitch"; "an underhand stroke" [syn: {underhand},
           {underarm}] [ant: {overhand}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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