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Example sentences for "underhand"

Lexicographically close words:
undergone; undergraduate; undergraduates; underground; undergrowth; underhanded; underived; underlaid; underlain; underland
  1. He did not know what he was missing by not coming; and she could not inform him, for writing to him was impossible, without the underhand dealings to which they would never, either of them, have recourse.

  2. After they came near the house, they walked up and down the lane for a long time, for Philip avoided a less public path, in order to keep up his delusion that he was doing nothing in an underhand way.

  3. They kept up an underhand diplomatic intercourse with the South German insurrections but never gave them the support of their open acknowledgment.

  4. To attack Protestant or Catholic orthodoxy, to attack priestcraft, was then to make an underhand attack upon the Government itself.

  5. She could be sure that she would not have countenanced any underhand dealing.

  6. I don't like doing things in that underhand way; it frightens me.

  7. He has tried to bribe Payne, the man who works for me, to give up a set of my blue prints, and he has tried to get them in other underhand ways.

  8. There is decidedly much underhand work going on about the President.

  9. You know very well that two or three fearless articles, something in my style, you know, would soon put a stop to all that underhand backing of your king.

  10. Were not people even talking of the approaching nomination of Deputy Sacco as Minister of Finances--Sacco, that intriguer who had engaged in all sorts of underhand practices?

  11. And so I should in no wise be astonished if there were an attempt to discredit him and render his candidature impossible, by employing the most underhand and shameful means.

  12. He, too, came from the department of La Correze, and had quarrelled for life with Monferrand after some unknown underhand affairs.

  13. Quite an underhand evolution was beginning in the sacristies, orders from Rome flitted hither and thither; it was a question of accepting the new form of government, and absorbing it by dint of invasion.

  14. In throwing to second or third, if he is near the base, he should pass the ball to the baseman by an easy, underhand toss.

  15. It is easier to hit a low ball when expecting a high one than to hit a high ball when a low one was expected, for the reason that it is easier to drop the bat quickly and swing underhand than it is to elevate it and chop overhand.

  16. The War Office for a long time remained under the supreme direction of a Bonapartist, and always carried on an underhand war against the defence.

  17. The Buttes seemed dead; panic had during the night hurried on its underhand work; the battalions, one after the other, had grown smaller, vanished.

  18. The Lorilleuxs certainly scented some underhand business, but not knowing what, they merely assumed their most conceited air.

  19. He had been alive to the value of underhand information from racing-stables, but who won't use a tip if he can get it?

  20. Lady Mabel, who had never before met the other girl, could hardly refrain from thinking that there had been some underhand communication,--and Miss Cassewary was clearly of opinion that there had been some understanding.

  21. It was a safe and deadly and underhand way of satisfying grudges.

  22. In addition to parties openly for and against the new order of things there were individuals, both in high and low places, who strove to spread disorder by underhand means and to use it for selfish ends.

  23. Was there no way of escaping once and for ever from these haunting torments; escaping once for all from fears and from plots and conspiracies, and all underhand dealings and living honestly and uprightly thenceforward?

  24. No pleasures, no joy, nothing but mean, underhand ways.

  25. You observe, my son, I have no underhand ways.

  26. And what was most curious, the most important part in this underhand intrigue was played by Lubinka, whose confidant was Nalimova.

  27. That the City had done its part in stopping enlistments they readily acknowledged, but information had reached them of underhand workings still going on to enlist men, as a "foundation for a new armie and a new warre.

  28. Nobody became a Christian except for some underhand object, and as soon as he had got it he went back; he considered drinking part of the conversion.

  29. Foiled in what they had aimed at, the party in power had other sinister objects in view, and with the underhand support of the Residency these they carried out.

  30. Melbourne said Creevey had been very shrewd, but exceedingly bitter and malignant; and I was rather surprised to hear him talk of Lord Dover as having been very bitter also, an underhand dealer and restless intriguer.

  31. You have elevated my unknown position to such a pitch as to defy taunt or jeer, and at any time if I may have, seemingly, ignored your advances, it was purely want of thought, and not through any underhand motive or scheme whatever.

  32. The Marquis of Orland was deceived by his nephew, who sold it in an underhand manner to the major, and he resolved that never again would he allow it to be occupied since the major's death by any outsider.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underhand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.