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Definition: Underhanded |
UnderhandedAdjective1. Marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods". 2. (sports) with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level; "an underhand pitch"; "an underhand stroke". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "underhanded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang | Adj. Source: Universally used and understood, this term seems to be an amalgamation of the words "understaffed" and "shorthanded". Definition: Having less employees in a given area than is usual or expected. Context: Used in discussions of the workplace. Social Source: Lunch Ladies. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Underhanded. Often incorrectly used for underhand; as "That was a contemptible and underhanded trick." Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: UnderhandedSynonyms: sneaky (adj), underarm (adj), underhand (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: overhand (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Underhanded |
| English words defined with "underhanded": crookedness ♦ deviousness, displacement ♦ hustle ♦ pluck, politician ♦ roll ♦ supplanting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "underhanded": Children. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Underhanded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Underhanded" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "underhanded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i fshehtë (backdoor, clandestine, close, colorable, colourable, confidential, cryptic, dark, deep, deep-seated, elfish, elvish, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, insidious, internal, latent, occult, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, undercover, underhand, unearthly, veiled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тайно (darkling, furtively, hugger mugger, in camera, in private, inwardly, on the quiet, on the sly, privately, privily, secretly, under the counter, under the rose, underground, underhand), задкулисно (behind the scenes, underhand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tajný (clandestine, classified, confidential, furtive, hole-and-corner, inward, occult, privy, restricted, retired, secret, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover, underhand, unspoken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slinks (contrived), onoprecht, geveinsd (affected, hypocritical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | malsincera. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | link (double-crossing, left, left hand, left wing, leftist, lefty, link, low down, sinister). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρύφιοσ (covert, cryptical, lurking, stealthy, surreptitious, ulterior, underhand), ύπουλοσ (catty, hangdog, insidious, insinuate, perfidious, shady, sneak, sneaker, sneaky, underhand), δόλιοσ (deceitful, dishonest, fraudulent, guileful, lurking, sly, snaky, trappy, treacherous, two faced, underhand, wily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | alulról ütött (underarm, underhand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 裏技 (underhanded trick), '手 (a dirty or underhanded trick), 後ろ暗い (back or underhanded, shady), 寝技 (pinning technique, underhanded dealings), 寝業師 (underhanded or Machiavelli-like person), 寝業 (pinning technique, underhanded dealings). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねわざし (underhanded or Machiavelli-like person), ねわざ (pinning technique, underhanded dealings), うしろぐらい (back or underhanded, shady), うらわざ (underhanded trick), どくしゅ (a dirty or underhanded trick, poisoned sake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불공 한 (underhand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erhandedunday secreto (arcane, backdoor, blind, classified, close, confidential, cryptic, deep, hole-gauge, inn, inner, occult, off season, private, privy parts, sealed, secret, secretive, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, under the table, undercover), dissimulado (artificial, covert, disingenuous, furtively, indirect assessment, laryngitis, latent, masked, off-stage, secretive, sneaking, stealthy), com falta de mão-de-obra, clandestino (backdoor, clandestine, gatecrasher, interloper, surreptitious, under the table, undercover, underground). (various references) тайный (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, cryptic, dark, esoteric, furtive, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, offscreen, private, privy, quiet, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, under the table, undercover, underground, underhand). (various references) nepošten (crooked, devious, dishonest, immoral, knavish, underhand, unprincipled, unscrupulous), koji nema dovoljno radne snage. (various references) hemlig (arcane, blind, clandestine, close, concealed, confidential, covert, furtive, hole-and-corner, occult, offscreen, privy, quiet, secret, secretly, sneaking, surreptitious, under cover, underground, underhand). (various references) yardımcısı az (short handed), personeli az, gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), el altından (by devious means, by stealth, clandestine, clandestinely, hole-and-corner, in secret, on the sly, secretly, slily, sub rosa, surreptitious, under the counter, under the rose, undercover, underhand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "underhanded": underhandedly, underhandedness, underhandednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Underhanded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: undegraded, unenhanced. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "underhanded" (pronounced u"nderha"ndud) |
| 6 | -h a" n d u d | evenhanded, handed. |
| 5 | -a" n d u d | banded, branded, candid, commanded, demanded, disbanded, expanded, landed, remanded, sanded, stranded, unbranded. |
| 4 | -n d u d | abounded, amended, appended, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, backhanded, befriended, bended, blended, blinded, bonded, bounded, commended, compounded, comprehended, confounded, contended, corresponded, defended, depended, descended, distended, dumbfounded, ended, expended, expounded, extended, fended, founded, funded, grounded, hounded, impounded, intended, masterminded, mended, minded, offended, overextended, overfunded, pounded, pretended, propounded, rebounded, recommended, refunded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, rounded, seconded, sounded, splendid, surrounded, suspended, tended, transcended, trended, unamended, unattended, unbounded, underfunded, unfounded, unfunded, unintended, winded, wounded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abided, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, applauded, avoided, awarded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, beheaded, bladed, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, braided, breaded, broadsided, brooded, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, conceded, concluded, confided, corded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defrauded, degraded, deluded, denuded, derided, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, eluded, embedded, encoded, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, exceeded, excluded, exploded, extruded, exuded, faded, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, guarded, guided, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, included, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, melded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, outmoded, overcrowded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, prided, proceeded, prodded, provided, raided, railroaded, receded, recorded, redheaded, regarded, reloaded, remolded, resided, retarded, rewarded, safeguarded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, spearheaded, speeded, stampeded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, threaded, traded, unaided, undecided, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, wooded, worded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-e-e-h-n-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: dunderhead. | |
-2 letters: daundered, underhand. | |
-3 letters: adherend, dandered, hardened, unearned, unhanded. | |
-4 letters: adhered, daunder, denuded, denuder, dreaded, endured, hennaed, hundred, readded, redhead, unended, unheard. | |
-5 letters: addend, adhere, dander, darned, deaden, deader, deaned, denned, denude, dhurna, dudeen, duende, duenna, dunned, dunner, durned, earned, endear, endued, endure, ennead, enured, handed, harden, headed, header, herded, neared, radded, redded, redden. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-d-e-e-h-n-n-r-u" | |
+2 letters: underhandedly. | |
+4 letters: roundheadedness, underhandedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 64 65 72 68 61 6E 64 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . .-. .... .- -. -.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d e r h a n d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 0068 0061 006E 0064 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580707184746780707170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanees, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, 알"니아, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, alban, Arnavut |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, 불가리아, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, 체", чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | holandez, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, holandský, nizozemský, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, 네덜란", holandês, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holländsk, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait |
Esperanto | vortaro, difino, traduko | есперанто, esperanton, εσπεράντο, eszperanto, eszperantó, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, esperanto dili |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, Duitse, "ερμανός, német, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, alemão, немецкий, germanski, tysk, alman |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Hongaarse, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, 헝가리, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, ungrare, macarca, macar |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japonez, японски език, японци, японски, japonský, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japansk, Japonca |
Japanese Katakana | へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ, じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい | japonez, японски език, японци, японски, japonský, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japansk, Japonca |
Korean | 번역, 사 , 의 | korean, корейски език, корейски, korejec, korejština, korejský, Koreaans, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, koreansk, kore'li |
Portuguese | tradução, dicionário, definição | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli |
Russian | трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение, словарь, определение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ryss, Rusça |
Serbo-Croatian | tumačenje, leksikon, rečnik, definicija | serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Swedish | översättning, ordbok, lexikon | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí |
Turkish | tercüme, sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama | turk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turkisk, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglan, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, 영국, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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