126 examples of underhand in sentences

Secret, covert, surreptitious, furtive, clandestine, underhand, stealthy.

At this juncture, then, all over Europe, when the classes are failing us and by their underhand machinations continually embroiling one nation with another, it is above all necessary that the mass-peoples should move and insist upon the representation of their great unitary and communal life and interests.

It was like him: only such a man can be capable of such an underhand act.

I don't know much of my father, but I can't believe that he would do anything underhand."

She would have liked to have assured him that he had done Sir Stephen an injustice in thinking him guilty of buying the Brae Wood land in an underhand way, but she knew it would be of no use to do so; for once an idea had got into Mr. Heron's head it was difficult to destroy it.

"If I thought so!" "There is some underhand work in progress," cried Tellier, growing more and more excited; "some trap, some piece of trickeryI know not whatbut I am certainI will find out!"

Nono underhand work.

[Footnote 3: 'Their destruction they have enticed on themselves by their own behaviour;' or, 'they have crept into their fate by their underhand dealings.'

What I mean in the present instance was, that he did not disdain to adopt underhand measures.

Here there is an underhand fight between the students and the University of Santo Tomas.

The key to it is furnished by the well-attested account that the consul Quintus Marcius, that master of the "new-fashioned diplomacy," had in the camp at Heracleum (and therefore after the occupation of the pass of Tempe) loaded the Rhodian envoy Agepolis with civilities and made an underhand request to him to mediate a peace.

I never found him out in a lie, or in a dishonest or underhand action.

The thing had been done, she considered, in an underhand manner; and Lady Maulevrier, who had begun by strenuously opposing the match, had been talked over in a way that proved the latent weakness of that great lady's character.

He had, indeed, picked up his adversary's sword, and while he did not wish, in handing it to him, to prick him with it, or do him some such underhand injury, he did not think it at all necessary to sharpen the weapon before giving it back.

So indirect and underhand is the Italian's mode of dealing in these matters, and so eccentric his notions as to value, that a foreigner is apt to be speedily disgusted or driven away by the magnitude of demands which in reality the seller never expects to realize.

"I fancy he has learned the folly and danger of all underhand policy, and that he will put more faith in his friends for the rest of his life.

An underhand pass.

The king considered himself sure of his brother; he had set his favorites to work, and employed underhand intrigues.

In the mean while I should take it for a very great Favour from some of my underhand Detractors, if they would break all Measures with me so far, as to give me a Pretence for examining their Performances with an impartial Eye: Nor shall I look upon it as any Breach of Charity to criticise the Author, so long as I keep clear of the Person.

That Captain Horn is said to be a good sailor, and the fact that he is in command of such a tub as the Miranda is a proof that there is something underhand about his business.

At length Tom, seeing that Emett meant no underhand trick, backed out of the drizzling snow and lay down.

Roldan was so much offended at this procedure, that while the lieutenant was taking order how the caciques should pay their quotas of the tribute to their Catholic majesties after the rate which had been settled by the admiral, Roldan began underhand to draw over some of the malcontents to his party.

He, not ignorant of this underhand dealing, was much offended, and his wife being dead, he took a great aversion to Portugal, and resolved upon going into Spain to offer his schemes at that court.

He has been a lawyer's clerk; and he looks, to my mind, rather a mean, underhand sample of that sort of man.

According to his own account,by the bye, I forgot to say that he is wonderfully conceited in his opinion of himself, as well as mean and underhand to look at,according to his own account, he leaves his old trade and joins ours of his own free will and preference.

126 examples of  underhand  in sentences