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underhand


adjective

  1. not open and aboveboard; secret and crafty or dishonorable: an underhand deal with the chief of police.
  2. executed with the hand below the level of the shoulder and the palm turned upward and forward: an underhand delivery of a ball.

adverb

  1. with the hand below the level of the shoulder and the palm turned upward and forward: to bowl underhand.
  2. secretly; stealthily; slyly.

adjective Also: underhanded

  1. clandestine, deceptive, or secretive
  2. sport another word for underarm

adverb

  1. in an underhand manner or style

adv.Old English under hand “in subjection,” from under + hand. Sense of “secret, stealthy, surreptitious” first recorded 1530s. For sense development, cf. Middle Dutch onderhanden “by degrees, slowly,” Dutch onderhandsch “secret, private.” The adjective is attested from 1540s.

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