Sentence examples for very underhand from inspiring English sources

Appearing on the same show, he said: "I think it's a very underhand act I'm afraid, because Cameron for years has promised a free vote – a fair fight on the repeal of the Hunting Act.

We had to resort to some very underhand methods to obtain decent oligonucleotides, from the commercial, next-day delivery oligonucleotide company down the road – who into the bargain were cheaper than the in-house option.

It was a very distasteful and underhand tactic.

And the fact that you don't know about [your profile] makes it all very sneaky and underhand.

But it does not specify very many or very large subsidies (such as underhand investment or production tax credits).

There was more than one moment when the Metropolitan Museum had reason to remember that in the Oxford English Dictionary the word "Byzantine" has among its secondary meanings "complicated", "inflexible" and "underhand".Sometimes the upshot was in doubt until the very last moment.

Underhand pricing tactics and fraud are very different things, obviously.

Though the underhand serve is not used in professional or any competitive tennis play (except very rarely when your opponent is tired or feeling sneaky), this is a great serve to use for beginners and children because it's easier to get the ball to clear the next and to land in the service box and to begin play.

He sings "All Shook Up" very fast, wandering side-stage, gesturing as if throwing a ball underhand.

In other areas of the higher/further education portfolio, Osborne's rather grubby and underhand omission of mention of the freeze in the repayment threshold for student fees from his speech – very much a case of checking the small-print – does him no credit at all.

He accused them of being "guilty of some very dirty, underhand[ed] work toward myself … were guilty of gross falsehoods in making malicious statements, and lied deliberately after making them".