Underhand vs. Underhanded — What's the Difference?

(Sports) Executed with the hand brought forward and up from below the level of the shoulder; underarm

Acting or done in a deceptive, secret, or sly manner; dishonest and sneaky.

Dishonest and sneaky; underhanded.

Underhand

With an underhand movement

In a sly and secret way.

In a sly and secret way.

With an underhand movement.

Secret; clandestine

Done by moving the hand (and arm) from below.

(by extension) dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner

Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating. Category:en:Corruption

(in various ball games, of a ball) thrown (etc.) with the hand brought forward and up from below

Insincere; sarcastic.

With an underhand movement

Secret; surreptitious.

In a sly, sneaky or secret manner

Understaffed.

To toss or lob with an underhand movement.

In an underhanded manner.

To trick, deceive or gull.

Simple past tense and past participle of underhand

(mining) To excavate downward in successive steps or horizontal slices while positioned above on unbroken ore.

Devious people, collectively.

(textiles) The lower of two hands, the hand under the work.

Underhand; clandestine.

Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent.

Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated; obsolete in this sense, short-handed or understaffed being the preferrred term.

Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than the elbow.

Marked by deception;

By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly; dishonorably.

With hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level;

In an underhand manner; thrown with the hand no higher than the shoulder and the palm turned upward during part of the pitch; - said of pitching or bowling a ball.

With hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level;

Marked by deception;

Slyly and secretly;

With the hand swung below shoulder level';