Word Meanings - UNDERHANDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Underhand; clandestine. 2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNDERHANDED)

• Crooked
• Bent
• incurved
• angular
• deformed
• bowed
• disfigured
• turned
• curved
• awry
• anfractuous
• tortuous
• underhanded
• Sinister
• Unlucky
• inauspicious
• ill-omened
• portentous
• disastrous
• unfavorable
• wrong
• unfair
• evil
• foul
• dishonest
• dishonorable
• forbidding
• repulsive
• lowering
• Sly
• Cunning
• subtle
• crafty
• artful
• wily
• astute
• stealthy
• Surreptitious
• Stealthy
• furtive
• unauthorized
• fraudulent
• clandestine

Related words: (words related to UNDERHANDED)

• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• BOW OAR
  . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• BOWGE
  To swell out. See Bouge.
• BOWKNOT
  A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• ASTUTE
  Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty. Syn. -- Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating; cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. As*tute"ly, adv. -- As*tute"ness, n.
• BOWYER
  1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
• TURN-SICK
  Giddy. Bacon.
• BOWLER
  One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
• CROOKBACK
  A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• SUBPENTANGULAR
  Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• NOCTURNAL
  1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
• EMBOWL
  To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
• SATURNISM
  Plumbum. Quain.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.