UNDERHANDED in a Sentence
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Example sentences for UNDERHANDED, such as:
1. It is obscure because it is underhand.
2. They did it all in such an underhand way.
3. Mr Livingstone accused the government of being underhand.
4. This kind of underhanded behavior is the reason that independent bookstores are going out of business.
5. But, you see, from the mother's breast the colored child feels and sees that there are none but underhand ways open to it.
2. They did it all in such an underhand way.
3. Mr Livingstone accused the government of being underhand.
4. This kind of underhanded behavior is the reason that independent bookstores are going out of business.
5. But, you see, from the mother's breast the colored child feels and sees that there are none but underhand ways open to it.
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Meanings and Examples of UNDERHANDED
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underhanded
a. with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level
a. marked by deception
Classic Sentence:
1 A beginning of mystery menaced "the established order of things," which was suspicious and underhand.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
2 It is obscure because it is underhand.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
3 "Oh, it's nothing underhand," he assured me.
4 But, you see, from the mother's breast the colored child feels and sees that there are none but underhand ways open to it.
5 He had suspected his agent of some underhand dealing; of meaning to bias him against the deserving; and he had determined to go himself, and thoroughly investigate the merits of the case.
6 Mr. Duffy, however, had a distaste for underhand ways and, finding that they were compelled to meet stealthily, he forced her to ask him to her house.
Example Sentence:
1 This kind of underhanded behavior is the reason that independent bookstores are going out of business.
2 Mr Livingstone accused the government of being underhand.
3 They did it all in such an underhand way.