underhanded

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Done by moving the hand (and arm) from below.

   “Golf is an underhanded game, because we must swing the club in an underhanded motion in order to play the ball off the ground.”

2. sıfat Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.

   “His underhanded trick backfired and he was disqualified.”

3. sıfat Insincere; sarcastic.

   “An underhanded compliment is actually criticism.”

4. sıfat Secret; surreptitious.

   “And, although the mystery of an unsigned note rather thrilled her, it seemed underhanded. And June hated underhanded things.”

5. sıfat Understaffed.

   “Between 9.30, when the first shot was fired, and 11.45 a.m., the enemy, well aware of his vast superiority in men — the ' Intrepid,' being, as was usual with the Company's cruisers, underhanded — made two attempts to run her on board and throw an overpowering force on the brig's decks.”

6. zarf In an underhanded manner.

   “Bonino required each of us to shoot our free throws underhanded.”

7. isim Devious people, collectively.

   “We have fallen to the underhanded and label it a greater means.”

8. fiil simple past and past participle of underhand