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De Vere Stacpoole, Satan: a Story of the Sea King's Country, →ISBN, page 51:", "text": "Jude and me can make out to work the boat and get a livin', but we're too underhanded for a big job.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Christopher Taylor, The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna, page 1617033111:", "text": "The government believed that most plantations in St. Vincent were “underhanded” and the phenomenon of runaways, or marronage, only exacerbated the problem.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Understaffed." ], "id": "en-underhanded-en-adj-r1QtD0QI", "links": [ [ "Understaffed", "understaffed" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "23 15 1 0 61", "sense": "all, except \"understaffed\"", "word": "underhand" }, { "_dis1": "8 9 1 0 82", "sense": "shorthanded", "word": "understaffed" } ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "11 7 0 0 82", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "understaffed", "word": "unterbesetzt" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underhanded.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-underhanded.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-underhanded.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a1/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-underhanded.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-underhanded.wav.ogg" } ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "under-handed" } ], "word": "underhanded" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "under", "3": "handed" }, "expansion": "under- + handed", "name": "prefix" } ], "etymology_text": "From under- + handed.", "forms": [ { "form": "more underhanded", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most underhanded", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "underhanded (comparative more underhanded, superlative most underhanded)", "name": "en-adv" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adv", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "30 17 2 0 34 13 1 2", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "27 20 2 0 34 13 2 2", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2009, Patrick M. 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