underhand
underhanded

An underhand pass is allowed from any part of the court.

An underhand shot taken using both hands, usually as a free throw.

Even with the net so high, the underhand serve did not last long.

I do not believe in any underhand work," was the ready answer.

Using the aid budget as some sort of underhand immigration policy is wrong.

This is just an underhand way of making workers redundant.

She's an underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her age with so much cover."

Right hand The bow is held with an underhand grip.

"I think it was seen as a slightly underhand thing to do, but not illegal."

It's just like Charlotte to do such an underhand trick.

No underhand tactics as then, everything out in the open, everyone operating to the same rules.

But not in such an underhand way as this.

The companies then used a variety of underhand means for using cheap equipment and staff from third countries.

There wouldn't be any force at all behind an underhand thrust.

However, it may be done in more underhand ways, such as:

What worked better was closer to an underhand tennis serve, but somehow that seemed close enough.

The Commission has now discovered for certain that underhand dealings are going on in this area.

Apple are not forcing consumers into its store by underhand means.

"It is all really sickening - these underhand methods, but what can one do?"

She swung it in a fast underhand arc and let fly.

You call those sneaky, underhand tactics coming to my aid?

There was nobody he hated more than these underhand traitors.

He had no wish to know about the underhand methods Frost intended to use.

He's going to employ all sorts of underhand tactics to get what he wants.

Instead he was forced to resort to underhand means.

Why do you have to make it sound so underhanded?

That just goes to show how underhanded he really is!

So he's trying to get at things in an underhanded way.

The union saw the move as an underhanded way for American to lower its costs.

And then they say, okay, but here's the underhanded part.

I don't like the underhanded way you went about this.

Not that there was anything underhanded in what we planned; no, indeed.

I absolutely would not interfere in such an underhanded way with my daughter's life.

Back then, she had thought the Game absurd, and worse than underhanded.

This is an underhanded way of trying to get a director who they've been after for a long time."

The first pitch was also underhanded, so I started breathing again.

But I'm not getting a feeling of anything underhanded going on, if that's what you mean."

Or else he's playing some kind of sneaky underhanded game.

He had to stop this underhanded alien from doing any more harm.

I would not believe any underhanded behavior of him, Captain."

"I probably should have been a little more underhanded," she said earnestly.

But since then I've been worried that he might be up to something underhanded."

She came toward me, then threw the spell, in the underhanded female way.

I only ask because it would seem to be a somewhat underhanded gesture if that's the case.

Underhanded tactics are not beneath him; he'll do anything he can to win.

She is willing to commit underhanded deals to better her business.

In all of his experience with Ria, she'd never been absolutely underhanded.

Usually Rachel threw underhanded and was no threat at all.

He returns to the office determined to teach her an underhanded lesson.

Underhanded practices in the name of national security are no longer countenanced.

Softball is a sport similar to baseball but pitchers throw underhand.

Mutual imputations of working underhand do but put true matters aback.

He's sharp in trade, but he wouldn't do anything so underhand as what you hint at."

The man might be human, but why had he been so underhand as not to warn him in advance that reveille was at six o'clock?

Furthermore, the pitcher had to throw underhand.

Then he pitched the capsule underhand down an intersecting corridor that led to a ramp from the upper level.

I hooked him underhand in the gut with a sharpened file, ripped it upward all the way to his chest.

Would they hurl them or thrust them underhand?

The athlete can often throw overhand and underhand."

The pitcher must throw all pitches underhand.

She threw it to him underhand.

Matatu flicked his fingers underhand, signalling Sean to cast the eastern approach to the pass.

Bogart trapped it close to the bag, and got it away underhand, beating the speedy runner by a nose.

This pike had to be held underhand, as the shield would have obscured the soldier's vision had it been held overhead.

His father had suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed, so that he could only throw underhand when playing catch with his son.

His comments are made in light of criticism from some connected with the Paris bid that London had been underhand in the bidding process.

In rules of years prior to the 1880s, the ball is pitched underhand in a manner suitable to the batter, or "striker."

The grey dawn light glinted on the broad-bladed stabbing spears, held underhand so the points protruded beyond the ring of shields.

In addition to landing on the table, throwing requires the player to toss the dice underhand to a height equal to the length of the toss.

He palmed one of the Russian frag grenades, released the safety pin and tossed the bomb underhand into the deep end of the swimming pool.

With Monahan by his side, Hernández jogged off the mound, flinging the ball underhand toward the dugout.

"For I don't trust Miss Slighcarp not to starve these young ones or do something underhand if we're not there to keep an eye on them," he said.

Unlike a Western string bow, the bow of the rebab is deeper and held underhand like that of a viola da gamba.

It seemed almost supernatural the way the shimmering, somersaulting sliver of steel would dart out to intercept the fruit as Aahz practiced first overhand, then underhand, now backhand.

The employee was dismissed and he challenged his sacking by appealing to the Privacy Commissioner, claiming the company had been underhand in installing a GPS device in his car without his knowledge.