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(Entry 1 of 2)
1
given to or marked by cheating and deception
- the commercial is a part of an underhanded PR campaign to whitewash the company's environmental record
Synonyms for underhanded
- bent
- [chiefly British],
- crooked,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- fast,
- fraudulent,
- guileful,
- rogue,
- shady,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- underhand
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2
undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others
- an underhanded attempt at infiltrating the other party's headquarters
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underhanded
adverbSynonyms & Antonyms of underhanded (Entry 2 of 2)
as in surreptitiously, underhand
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The first known use of underhanded was circa 1822
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