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adjective

Underhand adj.

Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent.

(Baseball, Cricket, etc.) Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than the elbow.

adverb

Underhand adv.

By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly; dishonorably. "Such mean revenge, committed underhand." "Baillie Macwheeble provided Janet, underhand, with meal for their maintenance." Note: In modern usage, the sense is usually negative.

(Baseball, Cricket, etc.) In an underhand manner; thrown with the hand no higher than the shoulder and the palm turned upward during part of the pitch; said of pitching or bowling a ball.

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"Underhand" Quotes from Famous Books

... earnestly against the danger of being swayed in religious inquiry by our sympathy rather than by our reason. I was in great perplexity, and hardly knew where I stood; I incurred the charge of weakness from some men, and of mysteriousness and underhand dealing from the majority. But I have never had any suspicion of my ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

... he ever pardon her? Then her mind would fly away to the injustice of his condemnation. He had spoken to her darkly, as though he had intended to accuse her of some secret understanding with Sir Francis. He had believed her to be guilty of some underhand plot against his happiness, carried on with the man to whom she had been engaged! Of what was it that he had imagined her to be guilty? What was the plot of which in his heart he accused her? Then her imagination looked out and seemed to ...

— Kept in the Dark • Anthony Trollope

... form. It sold by the thousand. Its weapon of defence was the same as its weapon of offence—pitiless and complete publicity. Measures of reprisal, either direct or underhand, undertaken against him, King published often ...

— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White

... he's a crook!" agreed George. "What would he be sneaking around here in the night for, if he wasn't engaged in some underhand game? You just wait until we get into the mine," the boy continued, "and we'll give him a ghost scare that'll hold him for ...

— The Call of the Beaver Patrol - or, A Break in the Glacier • V. T. Sherman

... BROWN WILL, one of Macheath's gang of thieves. He is described by Peachum as "an irregular dog, with an underhand way of disposing of his goods" (act i.1).—Gay, The Beggar's ...

— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

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