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Discover LudwigThe word "underhandedly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe when someone is acting deviously or with malicious intent in a sneaky or hidden manner. Example sentence: The mayor underhandedly implemented a rule that greatly favored his business interests.
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underhandedly
adverb
In an underhanded manner.
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Four years earlier, The Daily Mirror published a series of photographs of the inside of Buckingham Palace — showing that the queen's cereal was brought to the table in Tupperware containers and that the Duke of York's apartment contained stuffed animals and a cushion saying, "Eat, sleep and remarry" — after one of its reporters underhandedly got a job as a royal footman.
But planned renovations of the cottage they have – it turns out, rather underhandedly – acquired from Douglas's mother are not progressing as they had hoped.
He's as aroused by underhandedly forcing Lady Chung to confront her own hidden carnal nature as he is by constructing the meticulous imposture to take advantage of her.
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