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adjective

Underhand adj.

Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent.

(Baseball, Cricket, etc.) Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than the elbow.

adverb

Underhand adv.

By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly; dishonorably. "Such mean revenge, committed underhand." "Baillie Macwheeble provided Janet, underhand, with meal for their maintenance." Note: In modern usage, the sense is usually negative.

(Baseball, Cricket, etc.) In an underhand manner; thrown with the hand no higher than the shoulder and the palm turned upward during part of the pitch; said of pitching or bowling a ball.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Underhand" Quotes from Famous Books

... said one of the gentlemen. "Underhand bowling was all he was celebrated for at school; he bowled most frightful sneaks all the ...

— Ideala • Sarah Grand

... papers over to Prather, giving Prather full power to act for him in securing the partners' surrender of their claims and straighten out everything with the Territory and get a bonafide concession. That is as I understand it, for the whole business has been done in an underhand way. Prather represented to the Doge that he was acting entirely in the interests of the community and his only charge would be the costs. The Doge quite believed in Prather's single-mindedness and public ...

— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer

... be a gambler along with bein' sheriff and city marshal, and the like o' that, in one mountain town or another, but I always played fair. A man who plays a square game is a gambler. The man who deals underhand is a crook. I'm no crook. I love the game. To know that the cards are stacked against the other player takes all the fun out of the deck for me. I want the other felly to have an equal chance with me—else 'tis no game, but a hold-up. No man ever rightfully ...

— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland

... farewell, she walked away toward the ranch-house, leaving Stratton to return to where McCabe fidgeted beside the horses. There was no time for deliberate reasoning or planning. Buck only felt sure that Lynch was up to something underhand, and when Slim, with almost too great a casualness, inquired what it was all about, he obeyed a strong ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... the use which Great Britain hoped to make of our resentment; and to give weight to these insinuations, I availed myself of the letters, which the Marquis de Lafayette has done me the honor to address me from Cadiz. I know these hints have been conveyed to the Ministry, and am assured underhand, that I shall have soon reason to be satisfied. To these assurances I replied, that with all the desire I had to contribute to a lasting harmony between the two countries, it would be impossible for me, consistent with propriety and the idea I had of the dignity of my constituents, to remain here ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX • Various

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