underhandedin a sentence
- You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.† (source)
- Then he and Claude hurried up the road, away from T.J. Stacey, who generally overlooked T.J.'s underhanded stunts, shook his head.† (source)
- No one could have imagined how underhanded they'd be.† (source)
- They wouldn't side with the Erudite—they would never do something that underhanded.† (source)
- Constantine's underhanded political maneuvers don't diminish the majesty of Christ's life.† (source)
- She may be selfish, stingy and underhanded, but she'll readily back down as long as you don't provoke her and make her unreasonable.† (source)
- With that underhanded blow, he gained dominance over Vrael and removed his head with a blazing sword.† (source)
- Usually Rachel threw underhanded and was no threat at all.† (source)
- Unlike baldness, it did not seem to him an underhanded attack by old age, because he was convinced that despite the bitter breath of vulcanized rubber, his appearance would be cleaner with an orthopedic smile.† (source)
- But you were wide open for an underhanded counter with a slip-tip.† (source)
- As they're leaving she straightens him out some more, but it doesn't seem to be doing much harm, and I'm thinking there's a little piece in Mom that's glad to have someone care about her enough to get underhanded.† (source)
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- Hoping the questions were stored to memory, I underhanded the list into the nearest trash can.† (source)
- In desperation, Percy scooped up a giant marble and hurled it underhanded like a bowling ball.† (source)
- I threw one back underhanded, and she disappeared into the doorway.† (source)
- He pitched it up underhanded.† (source)
- At best, it could be taken as a desperate indiscretion; at worst, an underhanded act of betrayal.† (source)
- Doubtless it's not your fault that your parents are greedy and underhanded.† (source)
- Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning.† (source)
- This is a clear violation of the rules, and it's underhanded.† (source)
- It was the fact that they would go abroad for such a thing, would knowingly lead PPG on — millions in equipment upgrades and retooling to enable them to build the glass — my God, the whole thing was underhanded and it was cowardly and lacking in all principle.† (source)
- At this point I played a somewhat underhanded trick on this obliging fellow.† (source)
- 5TH JUROR: Underhanded.† (source)
- He complained in the grocery store and at the courthouse and on the street corner and directly to Mrs. McIntyre herself, for there was nothing underhanded about him.† (source)
- He fished in his pockets and underhanded Patch a pair of keys.† (source)
- What he is doing is a sneaky, underhanded way of gaining a woman's heart.† (source)
- Your Honor, this is not underhanded and I resent the accusation.† (source)
- He'd go for him underhanded ....3RD JUROR: How do you know?† (source)
- Let them serve as a message to Galbatorix that we do not fear his underhanded tricks and we shall prevail in spite of them.† (source)
- Is it any more underhanded than adorning yourself with fine clothing to catch the eye of your beloved?† (source)
- The 5TH JUROR flicks the knife open and, holding it underhanded, swings round and slashes swiftly forward and upward.† (source)
- But these underhanded wiles-Dentists four nights a week, gold-teeth, powder, mirrors!† (source)
- He did not look quite like a professional gambler, but something smooth and twinkling in his countenance suggested an underhanded mode of life.† (source)
- They weren't so underhanded, Albert!† (source)
- You are reproaching me, underhanded, with having nobody but you to look to.† (source)
- Please forgive me for this underhanded way of admitting I had turned forty.† (source)
- I have two brothers: Arthur, my elder, with a soul like to his father's; and Hugh, younger than I, a mean spirit, covetous, treacherous, vicious, underhanded—a reptile.† (source)
- It is that he cannot have too little to do with people who are too deep for him and cannot be too careful of interference with matters he does not understand—that the plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.† (source)
- "Esther," Richard resumed, "you are not to suppose that I have come here to make underhanded charges against John Jarndyce.† (source)
- underhanded ways tricked him, the day Alkmene, in high Thebes, was to have given birth to Herakles.† (source)
- When I had it comfortably fitted, he showed me the difference between an overhand strike and an underhanded stab.† (source)
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