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underhanded
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Underhanded \Un"der*hand`ed\, a.
1. Underhand; clandestine.
[1913 Webster]
2. Insufficiently provided with hands or workers;
short-handed; sparsely populated; obsolete in this sense,
short-handed or understaffed being the preferrred
term.
[1913 Webster +JG]
Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is
much underhanded now. --Coleridge.
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