Dictionary Entry
underhand
underhand is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent.
- 2adjective
Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow.
- 3adverb
By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly.
- 4adverb
In an underhand manner; -- said of pitching or bowling.
- 5adjective
marked by deception
"achieved success in business only by underhand methods"
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- 6adjective
with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level
"an underhand pitch"
"an underhand stroke"
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- 7adverb
with the hand swung below shoulder level
"throwing a ball underarm"
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- 8adverb
slyly and secretly- John Donne- C.G.Bowers
"Mean revenge, committed underhand"
"oldline aristocratic diplomats underhandedly undermined the attempt...to align Germany with the Western democracies"
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