sneaky, underhand, underhanded
(adjective) marked by deception; “achieved success in business only by underhand methods”
underhand, underhanded, underarm
(adjective) with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level; “an underhand pitch”; “an underhand stroke”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
underhanded (comparative more underhanded, superlative most underhanded)
Done by moving the hand (and arm) from below.
Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.
Insincere; sarcastic.
Secret; surreptitious.
Understaffed.
• (all, except "understaffed"): underhand
• (understaffed): shorthanded
underhanded (comparative more underhanded, superlative most underhanded)
In an underhanded manner.
• (in an underhanded manner): underhandedly
underhanded
simple past tense and past participle of underhand
the underhanded pl (plural only)
Devious people, collectively.
Source: Wiktionary
Un"der*hand`ed, a.
1. Underhand; clandestine.
2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.
Un"der*hand`, a.
1. Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent. Addison.
2. (Baseball, Cricket, etc.)
Definition: Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow.
Un"der*hand`, adv.
1. By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly. Such mean revenge, committed underhand. Dryden. Baillie Macwheeble provided Janet, underhand, with meal for their maintenance. Sir W. Scott.
2. (Baseball, Cricket, etc.)
Definition: In an underhand manner; -- said of pitching or bowling.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 January 2025
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
