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as in fraudulent
given to or marked by cheating and deception
willing to stoop to underhand methods in order to win
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as in clandestine
undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others
the congressman's underhand attempt to slip several pork barrel items into the bill
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Recent Examples of underhand
Steve Megargee, Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2024
The seated underhand pass uses isometric holds to promote core strength and stability.
—Health Editorial Team, Health, 2 June 2024
Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
Pitchers tossed underhand and no one wore gloves yet, resulting in smarting pain in the hands of catchers and first basemen.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2023
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The game calls for players to toss underhand four 6-by-6-inch bags toward a board 27 feet away that includes a 6-inch hole.
—Steve Megargee, Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2024
The seated underhand pass uses isometric holds to promote core strength and stability.
—Health Editorial Team, Health, 2 June 2024
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Each team will alternate tossing the bean bag underhand onto the board until all four bean bags are thrown.
—Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
Pitchers tossed underhand and no one wore gloves yet, resulting in smarting pain in the hands of catchers and first basemen.
—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2023
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The intrigue: Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold recently told state lawmakers that fraudulent business filings have been increasing rapidly across the country in the years since the pandemic.Erin Alberty, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
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Additional Browser Protection In addition to its visible protection against dangerous and fraudulent websites, Bitdefender also includes an Anti-Tracker component.PCMAG, PCMAG, 17 Dec. 2024
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Samia shows up in London, allegedly to attend a conference, and Brandon rekindles their clandestine romance despite her suspicious security detail (A Real Pain‘s Kurt Egyiawan) sniffing about.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
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Be on the lookout for people engaging in clandestine connections.Lisa Stardust, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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The law is intended to protect consumers from false advertising or deceptive practices, which the suit claims applies to the promotion of women's sports that may include transgender participants.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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That will in turn spread on social media, which often plays a disproportional role in boosting these disinformation efforts by providing nearly unlimited platforms for unfiltered content and fallacious and deceptive claims.Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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This covert symbol was meant to communicate that the British were rowing across the Charles River, rather than marching on land.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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With some help from Past Lives star Teo Yoo, who plays newcomer Jang Kyun, Owen begins a covert operation for the Central Intelligence Agency, despite being a lawyer.Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025
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Image On a recent muggy Saturday morning, a few dozen people — from restless children and lanky teenagers to men and women in their 50s and 60s — flocked to the shady overpass.María Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Then there’s Ferrer’s arm surfacing in the last episode, which has to be going somewhere, and now Deb’s entanglement with a shady new character.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
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The official seizure seals hung crooked across the front gate, half-unstuck.Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
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From background to foreground, the painting depicts a haloed Virgin Mary, a young Jesus standing between her knees, St. Jerome asleep on the ground, and St. John the Baptist, clad sparsely in animal skins, pointing a crooked finger toward the figures behind him.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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These are the primary takeaways from Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the Amazon Prime series that took the Pitt-Jolie movie and turned it on its head by zeroing in on the smaller issues with being undercover as a married couple.Brian Grubb, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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One’s an undercover spy who kills people and the other one’s an assassin on a murderous rampage for revenge.Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
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Start Glorifying Honest And Authentic Marketing Why do some marketers create dishonest marketing campaigns that tap into impulsive emotions?Drew Gerber, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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The settlement sparked a backlash from both sides of the political aisle, with one half framing it as a dishonest entity being justly punished and the other accusing the news outlet of kowtowing to Trump.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Underhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underhand. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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