Sentence examples for underhand by from inspiring English sources

He said she had been underhand by repeating the accusations of a woman who was no longer alive to be questioned about her claims.

But this was possible only by ignoring allegedly illegal and underhand manoeuvres by BPI that led recently to the suspension of its boss, Gianpiero Fiorani, and of the bid.

Critics worry underhand deals by lesser-known companies could deprive the country of millions in income.

I explained who we were and told him we were protesting against some underhand behaviour by the Arts Council.

This sort of underhand behaviour by all parties, which is common knowledge, was now suddenly out in the open and could no longer be ignored.

The FSA confirmed it was looking closely at the danger of underhand tactics by speculators as fears grow of a commodity price leap.

The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.

The world championship matches in the 1970s and 80s between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi and, later, Karpov and his bitter rival Garry Kasparov produced acres of coverage, both the subplots involving alleged underhand tactics by the Soviet authorities and the games themselves.

This strategy degenerated into farce: one journalist put forward 20 names before getting it right.Lord Hutton said that looking at the details in isolation it was possible to infer an underhand strategy by the government and at the start of the inquiry he himself "found a case of some strength" could be made for it.

He's still youthful, still reminiscent in many ways of the player who instantly disarmed English fans reared on the image of him as the face of dour Germanic footballing efficiency and underhand gamesmanship, by diving full length to celebrate his first goal in the Premier League with Tottenham.

But it seems to me, though this is speculation, that it was possibly a slightly underhand move by Goodluck Jonathan, the outgoing president, in a re-election bid to show military strength and that the mercenaries were not initially meant to be taking as big a combat role as they did.