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synonyms for under-hand

  • ambiguous
  • ancillary
  • circuitous
  • implied
  • incidental
  • oblique
  • tortuous
  • collateral
  • circular
  • circumlocutory
  • complicated
  • contingent
  • crooked
  • devious
  • discursive
  • duplicitous
  • erratic
  • eventual
  • long
  • long way home
  • long-drawn-out
  • long-winded
  • meandering
  • obscure
  • out-of-the-way
  • periphrastic
  • rambling
  • secondary
  • serpentine
  • sidelong
  • sinister
  • sinuous
  • snaking
  • sneaking
  • sneaky
  • subsidiary
  • twisting
  • underhand
  • vagrant
  • wandering
  • winding
  • zigzag

antonyms for under-hand

MOST RELEVANT
  • direct
  • straight
  • straightforward
    • naive
    • aboveboard
    • honest
    • open
    • blunt
    • dull
    • foolish
    • honest
    • idiotic
    • ignorant
    • inept
    • obtuse
    • senseless
    • slow
    • stupid
    • unintelligent
    • unreasonable
    • unstylish
    • unwise
    • frivolous
    • naive
    • unthinking
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      How to use under-hand in a sentence

      Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.
      A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODD
      The Pontellier and Ratignolle compartments adjoined one another under the same roof.
      THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
      After relievedly giving the pistol to the nearest soldier, he stumbled quickly over to Brion and took his hand.
      SENSE OF OBLIGATIONHENRY MAXWELL DEMPSEY (AKA HARRY HARRISON)
      She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.
      CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
      The aged woman made no reply; her eyes still studied Ramona's face, and she still held her hand.
      RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
      He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.
      THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN
      The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.
      SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAY
      She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
      THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
      Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
      SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUM
      For several months he remained under a political cloud, charged with incompetency to quell the Philippine Rebellion.
      THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
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