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. - 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 - TURNINGNESS
The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney. - 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. - SUBTLE
subtil, OF. soutil, later subtil, F. subtil, L. subtilis; probably, originally, woven fine, and fr. sub under + tela a web, fr. texere to 1. Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe. "A subtle - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - RE-TURN
To turn again. - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - 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.