"underhanded" meaning in English

See underhanded in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

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Etymology: From under- + handed. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|under|handed}} under- + handed Head templates: {{en-adj}} underhanded (comparative more underhanded, superlative most underhanded)
  1. Done by moving the hand (and arm) from below. Translations (from below): onderhands (Dutch), heimlich (German), verdeckt (German)
    Sense id: en-underhanded-en-adj-Lk6aTYaE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 17 2 0 34 13 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 27 20 2 0 34 13 2 2 Disambiguation of 'from below': 93 7 0 0 1
  2. Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating. Categories (topical): Corruption Translations (sly): gluiperig (Dutch), salakähmäinen (Finnish), salaileva (Finnish), luihu (Finnish), kiero (Finnish), hinterhältig (German), hinterlistig (German), δόλιος (dólios) [masculine] (Greek), ύπουλος (ýpoulos) [masculine] (Greek), 卑怯な (hikyouna) (Japanese), подлый (podlyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-underhanded-en-adj-DSjNN5YE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 17 2 0 34 13 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 27 20 2 0 34 13 2 2 Disambiguation of 'sly': 1 94 4 0 1
  3. Insincere; sarcastic. Synonyms (insincere): backhanded Translations (sarcastic): sarkastisch (German)
    Sense id: en-underhanded-en-adj-PCltWNc9 Disambiguation of 'insincere': 0 0 100 0 0 Disambiguation of 'sarcastic': 0 9 89 0 1
  4. Secret; surreptitious.
    Sense id: en-underhanded-en-adj-CJplePJd
  5. Understaffed. Synonyms (all, except "understaffed"): underhand Synonyms (shorthanded): understaffed Translations (understaffed): unterbesetzt (German)
    Sense id: en-underhanded-en-adj-r1QtD0QI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum, English terms prefixed with under-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 17 2 0 34 13 1 2 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 23 21 3 0 33 14 3 3 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with under-: 24 10 10 2 32 7 8 7 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 24 19 4 0 33 13 3 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 27 20 2 0 34 13 2 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 26 21 1 0 35 15 1 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 20 18 5 0 38 12 4 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 18 21 6 1 34 11 7 3 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 19 19 4 1 38 12 3 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 21 18 5 0 37 12 4 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 20 19 3 0 40 13 3 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 20 19 3 0 40 13 3 2 Disambiguation of 'all, except "understaffed"': 23 15 1 0 61 Disambiguation of 'shorthanded': 8 9 1 0 82 Disambiguation of 'understaffed': 11 7 0 0 82
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: under-handed Derived forms: underhandedly, underhandedness

Adverb

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Etymology: From under- + handed. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|under|handed}} under- + handed Head templates: {{en-adv}} underhanded (comparative more underhanded, superlative most underhanded)
  1. In an underhanded manner. Synonyms (in an underhanded manner): underhandedly Translations (in an underhand manner): δολίως (dolíos) (Greek)
    Sense id: en-underhanded-en-adv-V2WQdthU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 17 2 0 34 13 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 27 20 2 0 34 13 2 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: under-handed

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underhanded.wav Forms: the underhanded [canonical, plural]
Etymology: From under- + handed. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|under|handed}} under- + handed Head templates: {{en-noun|p|head=the underhanded}} the underhanded pl (plural only)
  1. Devious people, collectively. Tags: plural, plural-only
    Sense id: en-underhanded-en-noun-DrjhQ0RD
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: under-handed

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-underhanded.wav
Etymology: From under- + handed. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|under|handed}} under- + handed Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} underhanded
  1. simple past and past participle of underhand Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: underhand
    Sense id: en-underhanded-en-verb-q8vhJA~u
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: under-handed

Alternative forms

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          "text": "They were actually underhanded threats to call off the lawsuit and then all insurance agents in the hospital district would get a dividend for the premiums paid.",
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          "ref": "2009, Alain-G. Gagnon, Contemporary Canadian Federalism, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Was the federal government being underhanded and hypocritical in officially praising the merits of federalism, but in missing no opportunity to promote Canadian nationalism?",
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          "ref": "2010, Al Walentis, Polly Kahl, The Secret World of Jon and Kate, →ISBN, page 152:",
          "text": "The pap phoned and we told him that Kirschner probably peddled them himself and now was accusing you of acting underhanded so he did not have out to pay out any more dough.",
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          "ref": "2014, Carl Douglass, The Long Climb, →ISBN:",
          "text": "There were underhanded ploys that were effective but were deplored by the hospital administration.",
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          "ref": "2012, Hanne Blank, The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts, →ISBN, page 56:",
          "text": "Of course, sometimes compliments just aren't really compliments. Underhanded compliments are, for better or worse, nothing new or unusual.",
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          "ref": "2013, Charmaine Ross, Makeover Miracle, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Poking underhanded fun at the contestants live on stage was absolutely inexcusable.",
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          "ref": "2014, Julie Levinson, Alexander Payne: Interviews, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“Have you seen my film?” He's asking about Election, his deliriously sardonic and underhanded satire of politics and high school culture that follows trepidatious government teacher (Matthew Broderick) through increasingly bizarre attempts to sideline a senior's fanatical student body presidential campaign.",
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          "text": "And, although the mystery of an unsigned note rather thrilled her, it seemed underhanded. And June hated underhanded things.",
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          "ref": "1918, Cambrian ... Published in the Interest of the Welsh People and Their Descendants in the United States Volume 38:",
          "text": "A general agreement should be made among the nations, that henceforth, all underhanded diplomatic agreements be abolished, and that complete publicity be observed in discussing and transacting international affairs.",
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          "ref": "2011, Celine Flux, Sit-Ups and Supersex, →ISBN, page 289:",
          "text": "He moved in closer, covertly noticing Vienna's underhanded peek.",
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          "ref": "2008, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Satan: a Story of the Sea King's Country, →ISBN, page 51:",
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          "ref": "2012, Christopher Taylor, The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna, page 1617033111:",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.