What is "underhanded"

Usage examples of "underhanded".

Trying to write a statement about the Stover kidnapping for a man she thought was despicable, maybe even underhanded enough to have planned the kidnapping himself, made her want to scream.

Longarm saw that he was throwing an underhanded catch loop called the mangana that had been adopted from the Mexican vaqueros and was so difficult to throw correctly that it marked an expert roper.

We are not spies, we are not involved in anything underhanded, and we are not James Bond and Miss Moneypenny.

Petersburg, where his martial bearing and his well-known bravery had given him a sort of popularity in society, which, on the other hand, had great disdain for Gounsovski, the head of the Secret Police, who was known to be capable of anything underhanded and had been accused of sometimes playing into the hands of the Nihilists, whom he disguised as agents-provocateurs, without anybody really doubting it, and he had to fight against these widespread political suspicions.

Every ship that sails from San Francisco carries away a heavy freight of Chinese corpses--or did, at least, until the legislature, with an ingenious refinement of Christian cruelty, forbade the shipments, as a neat underhanded way of deterring Chinese immigration.

With another one of his underhanded psychological ploys, Boba Fett had managed to chase Bossk out of his own ship, the Hound's Tooth, and once more into an emergency escape pod, hurtling away from what Bossk had thought was certain destruction but which had turned out to be only a dud autonomic bomb.

The one thing that Roddenberry, and every other creative person in the history of Star Trek, have always been absolutely insistent upon is the unwavering belief that Federation officers are past the petty, underhanded, political squabbling that plagues our present society.

And the blue-skinned Andorians: Even though they had been a founding member of the Federation, there apparently were rogue factions that still went in for the same kind of underhanded tactics they had been known for in pre-Federation days.

Softly, underhanded, he tossed the fragmentation bomb at Remo, then ran back toward the entrance to the tunnel.

He lobbed one underhanded, and Bo hit a scorching ground ball to short, where Pablo lunged to avoid it.

You want underhanded and realpolitik, the Franklins make the Darhel look warm and fuzzy.