Sentence examples for underhand that from inspiring English sources

I know now that there is no straight line that you can draw around a circumstance to take its shape away; there are only marks, made underhand, that you erase and adjust and erase again, over and over, until the black dog barks and the afternoon is over, and you close your pad and call it life.

Osborne blamed the Lib Dems for an underhand operation that left him dangerously exposed.

By the eve of the American Civil War there were hundreds of such speculative brokerage firms on Wall Street; warring cliques of bulls and bears would routinely drive prices artificially high and low, respectively, often in underhand ways that angered more legitimate stockbrokers.

"Underhand in that Sinn Féin pressed this case from the start; underhand in that none of the other Northern Ireland parties was aware of it; underhand in the sense that the Republic of Ireland government pressed and pressed very strongly the United Kingdom government to actually progress this matter.

The Broad Institute insisted there is nothing underhand, just that it "simply means" its application was considered more quickly than that of the Berkeley's.

Such is his reputation for corruption, evasion of justice and underhand dealings that his name has is become synonymous with corruption.

If you doubt the gravity of what's being proposed and the underhand way that it's happening, have a look at this blog by The Spectator's Fraser Nelson, which draws a comparison with the coalition's plans for the NHS, and points out that no legislation will be needed to push through what the headline calls Theresa May's "quiet revolution".

At Yasnaya Polyana, it was still Major Wingfield's game: long rallies of lobs and spins begun by underhand serves that arched several feet above a net much taller than today's net, which is three feet high at its center.

Cooper carved a path along the baseline and floated an underhand 10-footer that fell into the basket, lifting Houston back to its lofty perch.

The most obvious contribution is the jump ball's similarity to the line-out as well as the underhand shooting style that dominated the early years of the sport.

The problem with this argument in relation to underhand serving is that there is no loophole that underhand serving exploits.