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Meanings of underhandedly in English

Slyly and secretly.

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Examples for "underhand"
Examples for "underhand"
1
I took his underhand air for a priestly air; I did wrong.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
2
I do not believe in any underhand work, was the ready answer.
Joe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck
3
There would be plenty of time for practicing with the underhand toss.
Quest for honour
4
Well, he would speak plainly; there had been too much underhand doing.
Beyond
5
But this underhand conduct of the emperor only showed his own weakness.
History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (o...
Usage of underhandedly in English
1
Quietly and underhandedly they began to go back to doing the old bad things again.
White Queen of the Cannibals: the Story of Mary Slessor of Calab...
2
Kappelman is underhandedly watching the clock.
The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million
3
Not taken by poison nor underhandedly, but torn out of your deceitful body as we stand face to face.
The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest
4
For none of the transactions was carried on underhandedly, Cicero, but they were all recorded on tablets, as you yourself affirm.
Dio's Rome, Volume 3 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
Underhandedly through the time