Both Uses of
underhanded
in
Bleak House
- It is that he cannot have too little to do with people who are too deep for him and cannot be too careful of interference with matters he does not understand—that the plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- "Esther," Richard resumed, "you are not to suppose that I have come here to make underhanded charges against John Jarndyce.†
Chpt 37-39
Definition:
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(underhanded) marked by deception;
or: with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level