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"Underhanded" in a Sentence (26 examples)
There was a time when Christopher Columbus challenged another explorer to a duel. The latter, an underhanded chap, did not take ten steps - as dictated by the rules - but two, then turned around to shoot. Unfortunately for him, Columbus hadn't taken any steps at all.
Primely skilled in the art of social manipulation and a rat at heart, he always convinced others to do his dirty underhanded work.
In softball, the ball is pitched underhanded.
Find a more productive outlet for your emotions instead of continuously following me with your underhanded remarks.
Here was a chance—perhaps the only one they would have—to bring these men to justice for their cruel, underhanded way of getting even with Mr. Lewis for a trivial matter.
Golf is an underhanded game, because we must swing the club in an underhanded motion in order to play the ball off the ground.
His underhanded trick backfired and he was disqualified.
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.
Was the federal government being underhanded and hypocritical in officially praising the merits of federalism, but in missing no opportunity to promote Canadian nationalism?
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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There were underhanded ploys that were effective but were deplored by the hospital administration.
An underhanded compliment is actually criticism.
Of course, sometimes compliments just aren't really compliments. Underhanded compliments are, for better or worse, nothing new or unusual.
Poking underhanded fun at the contestants live on stage was absolutely inexcusable.
“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.
And, although the mystery of an unsigned note rather thrilled her, it seemed underhanded. And June hated underhanded things.
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.
He moved in closer, covertly noticing Vienna's underhanded peek.
Between 9.30, when the first shot was fired, and 11.45 a.m., the enemy, well aware of his vast superiority in men — the ' Intrepid,' being, as was usual with the Company's cruisers, underhanded — made two attempts to run her on board and throw an overpowering force on the brig's decks.
Jude and me can make out to work the boat and get a livin', but we're too underhanded for a big job.
The government believed that most plantations in St. Vincent were “underhanded” and the phenomenon of runaways, or marronage, only exacerbated the problem.
Bonino required each of us to shoot our free throws underhanded.
The 3fz one-hand-only shooting mechanism allows players to shoot the basketball up-handed by pronating palm (down) and uplifting the arm, as well as underhanded by supinating palm (up) and low-hand Unishots.
We have fallen to the underhanded and label it a greater means.
The kind of kho'los that comes from unfair dealings, culturally unacceptable practices that bring rewards to the underhanded can, on Odysseus's (and Agamemnon's) terms, be set aside.
But this is not what is decisive, as it also applies to the distrustful, the underhanded, and the “deranged."
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