Usually means: Deceptive and secretive in nature.
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  1. underhanded: Merriam-Webster
  2. underhanded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. underhanded: Collins English Dictionary
  4. underhanded: Vocabulary.com
  5. Underhanded, underhanded: Wordnik
  6. underhanded: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. underhanded: Wiktionary
  8. underhanded: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. underhanded: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. underhanded: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. underhanded: Dictionary.com
  12. underhanded: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Underhanded: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. underhanded: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. underhanded: Rhymezone
  16. Underhanded: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. underhanded: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. underhanded: FreeDictionary.org
  19. underhanded: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. underhanded: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. underhanded: Legal dictionary

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  1. Underhanded: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See underhandedly as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Done by moving the hand (and arm) from below.
adjective:  Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.
adjective:  Insincere; sarcastic.
adjective:  Secret; surreptitious.
adjective:  Understaffed.
adverb:  In an underhanded manner.
noun:  Devious people, collectively.

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