underhanded

underhanded
    adj 1: marked by deception; "achieved success in business only
           by underhand methods" [syn: {sneaky}, {underhand},
           {underhanded}]
    2: with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level;
       "an underhand pitch"; "an underhand stroke" [syn:
       {underhand}, {underhanded}, {underarm}] [ant: {overarm},
       {overhand}, {overhanded}]
    

Underhanded \Un"der*hand`ed\, a.
   1. Underhand; clandestine.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers;
      short-handed; sparsely populated; obsolete in this sense,
      {short-handed} or {understaffed} being the preferrred
      term.
      [1913 Webster +JG]

            Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is
            much underhanded now.                 --Coleridge.
      [1913 Webster]
    

87 Moby Thesaurus words for "underhanded":
      amoral, artful, back-door, backstairs, calculating, chiseling,
      clandestine, collusive, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, covert,
      covinous, crafty, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful,
      devious, dishonest, dishonorable, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous,
      evasive, false, falsehearted, feline, felonious, finagling, fishy,
      fraudulent, furtive, guileful, hidlings, hole-and-corner,
      hugger-mugger, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indirect, insidious,
      not kosher, privy, questionable, quiet, rotten, scheming, shady,
      shameless, sharp, shifty, sinister, skulking, slinking, slinky,
      slippery, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious,
      suspicious, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two-faced,
      unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, under-the-counter,
      under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, undermanned,
      understaffed, unethical, unobtrusive, unprincipled, unsavory,
      unscrupulous, unstraightforward, wily, without remorse,
      without shame