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underhanded
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  • Hoping the questions were stored to memory, I underhanded the list into the nearest trash can.†   (source)
  • In desperation, Percy scooped up a giant marble and hurled it underhanded like a bowling ball.†   (source)
  • I threw one back underhanded, and she disappeared into the doorway.†   (source)
  • He pitched it up underhanded.†   (source)
  • Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning.†   (source)
  • Doubtless it's not your fault that your parents are greedy and underhanded.†   (source)
  • This is a clear violation of the rules, and it's underhanded."†   (source)
  • At best, it could be taken as a desperate indiscretion; at worst, an underhanded act of betrayal.†   (source)
  • It was the fact that they would go abroad for such a thing, would knowingly lead PPG on — millions in equipment upgrades and retooling to enable them to build the glass — my God, the whole thing was underhanded and it was cowardly and lacking in all principle.†   (source)
  • At this point I played a somewhat underhanded trick on this obliging fellow.†   (source)
  • He complained in the grocery store and at the courthouse and on the street corner and directly to Mrs. McIntyre herself, for there was nothing underhanded about him.†   (source)
  • 5TH JUROR: Underhanded.†   (source)
  • What he is doing is a sneaky, underhanded way of gaining a woman's heart.†   (source)
  • Your Honor, this is not underhanded and I resent the accusation.†   (source)
  • He fished in his pockets and underhanded Patch a pair of keys.†   (source)
  • Let them serve as a message to Galbatorix that we do not fear his underhanded tricks and we shall prevail in spite of them.†   (source)
  • Is it any more underhanded than adorning yourself with fine clothing to catch the eye of your beloved?†   (source)
  • The 5TH JUROR flicks the knife open and, holding it underhanded, swings round and slashes swiftly forward and upward.†   (source)
  • He'd go for him underhanded ….†   (source)
  • But these underhanded wiles-Dentists four nights a week, gold-teeth, powder, mirrors!†   (source)
  • He did not look quite like a professional gambler, but something smooth and twinkling in his countenance suggested an underhanded mode of life.†   (source)
  • They weren't so underhanded, Albert!†   (source)
  • You are reproaching me, underhanded, with having nobody but you to look to.†   (source)
  • Please forgive me for this underhanded way of admitting I had turned forty.†   (source)
  • I have two brothers: Arthur, my elder, with a soul like to his father's; and Hugh, younger than I, a mean spirit, covetous, treacherous, vicious, underhanded—a reptile.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "Esther," Richard resumed, "you are not to suppose that I have come here to make underhanded charges against John Jarndyce.†   (source)
  • But feminine Hera with her. underhanded ways tricked him, the day Alkmene, in high Thebes, was to have given birth to Herakles.†   (source)
  • When I had it comfortably fitted, he showed me the difference between an overhand strike and an underhanded stab.†   (source)
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