How to Use underhanded in a Sentence

underhanded

adjective
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  • Kelly fielded the ball and made an underhanded toss to first to end the threat.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2022
  • Several of them still shot with two hands from the field and underhanded from the foul line.
    — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
  • The forward used the backboard, flicking the ball underhanded off it with a bounce pass.
    — Jayda Evans, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Their weapon was a pitch called the rise ball, which is thrown underhanded and with tremendous backspin.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • He was halted on a fast break, tossed the ball off the board underhanded, sped past his defenders, and dunked it.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 11 June 2017
  • Any underhanded actions will not go well as a sense of right and wrong is strengthened.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Ragans made an underhanded toss to the plate from his glove, but Robert made a nice slide to avoid catcher Jonah Heim’s tag to tie the game at 1.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Cordero made a low underhanded toss to the plate, and catcher Yasmani Grandal couldn’t handle the throw and was charged with an error.
    — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • As a youth, Schwartz excelled in baseball, and shines throwing the softball underhanded in the games.
    — Marvin Glassman, Jewish Journal, 3 July 2018
  • This is not just an underhanded and vile tactic for lawyers to win cases.
    — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Kearney learns that underhanded deals with China are afoot, with many of her workers’ jobs on the line.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 July 2023
  • Then with 5:33 remaining, Dobbie took a pass from Jimerson and whipped an underhanded, back-to-the-cage volley to the top right corner of the net.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2022
  • Instinct told Owens to reach around his back and throw it underhanded to the man sitting in the second level behind home plate.
    — NBC News, 20 June 2020
  • Far fewer know about the arguably underhanded way this all went down.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The people behind issue one, the underhanded move to reduce the power of the voter.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • Some naysayers are warning us to be on the watch for sneaky and underhanded algorithms.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The 90-year-old Lasorda, a lefty who pitched for Brooklyn, underhanded his toss home.
    — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Alvarez was able to get the out with an underhanded toss to first base before collapsing and getting carted off the field.
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Down two sets and a break down to the usually unflappable Ivan Lendl, Chang stormed back and by the time he was done hitting moon balls and sneak-serving underhanded, the world No.
    — Chris Chase, For The Win, 28 May 2018
  • Many of them see him as really not having changed his views but as trying to ... achieve his goals through more underhanded means.
    — NBC News, 27 Jan. 2018
  • But the one underhanded thing when something goes so well and fits like a glove is that people have a hard time divorcing you from that character.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • But Wright’s rushed, underhanded throw dragged first baseman Eric Campbell off the bag.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 11 May 2016
  • After duping Lendl at the 1989 French Open, guess how many more underhanded serves Chang hit during his career?
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Neto hopped up on one leg, catching the ball in his glove, landed and threw underhanded to second baseman Brandon Drury to get the third out at second.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
  • If one or both rumors are true about the Crimson Tide's recruiting tactics, is that sneaky and underhanded?
    — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Johnson flipped a nifty underhanded pass to Butler for a dunk minutes later.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Tejo players take turns tossing disks underhanded and score points by hitting the bull's-eye—a metal ring in the center of a clay pit—or the gunpowder packets that surround it.
    — John Otis, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
  • Adams saw no reason that high-minded ideals should shy from underhanded tactics.
    — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
  • There are, of course, the shootouts, the inventive ways drugs are trafficked, meddling law enforcement agents and underhanded plots and betrayals.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
  • In the pre-digital era, Britain’s fiercely competitive tabloid newspapers sold millions of copies a day and would go to great lengths to get scoops, including by using underhanded techniques.
    — Jill Lawless, Fortune Europe, 18 Dec. 2023

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