How to Use underhanded in a Sentence

underhanded

adjective

• Kelly fielded the ball and made an underhanded toss to first to end the threat.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2022
• Several of them still shot with two hands from the field and underhanded from the foul line.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
• The forward used the backboard, flicking the ball underhanded off it with a bounce pass.
  — Jayda Evans, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
• Their weapon was a pitch called the rise ball, which is thrown underhanded and with tremendous backspin.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• He was halted on a fast break, tossed the ball off the board underhanded, sped past his defenders, and dunked it.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 11 June 2017
• Any underhanded actions will not go well as a sense of right and wrong is strengthened.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• Ragans made an underhanded toss to the plate from his glove, but Robert made a nice slide to avoid catcher Jonah Heim’s tag to tie the game at 1.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
• Cordero made a low underhanded toss to the plate, and catcher Yasmani Grandal couldn’t handle the throw and was charged with an error.
  — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2020
• As a youth, Schwartz excelled in baseball, and shines throwing the softball underhanded in the games.
  — Marvin Glassman, Jewish Journal, 3 July 2018
• This is not just an underhanded and vile tactic for lawyers to win cases.
  — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Kearney learns that underhanded deals with China are afoot, with many of her workers’ jobs on the line.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 July 2023
• Then with 5:33 remaining, Dobbie took a pass from Jimerson and whipped an underhanded, back-to-the-cage volley to the top right corner of the net.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2022
• Instinct told Owens to reach around his back and throw it underhanded to the man sitting in the second level behind home plate.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2020
• Far fewer know about the arguably underhanded way this all went down.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• The people behind issue one, the underhanded move to reduce the power of the voter.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 18 July 2023
• Some naysayers are warning us to be on the watch for sneaky and underhanded algorithms.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• The 90-year-old Lasorda, a lefty who pitched for Brooklyn, underhanded his toss home.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
• Alvarez was able to get the out with an underhanded toss to first base before collapsing and getting carted off the field.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2021
• Down two sets and a break down to the usually unflappable Ivan Lendl, Chang stormed back and by the time he was done hitting moon balls and sneak-serving underhanded, the world No.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 28 May 2018
• Many of them see him as really not having changed his views but as trying to ... achieve his goals through more underhanded means.
  — NBC News, 27 Jan. 2018
• But the one underhanded thing when something goes so well and fits like a glove is that people have a hard time divorcing you from that character.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• But Wright’s rushed, underhanded throw dragged first baseman Eric Campbell off the bag.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 11 May 2016
• After duping Lendl at the 1989 French Open, guess how many more underhanded serves Chang hit during his career?
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• Neto hopped up on one leg, catching the ball in his glove, landed and threw underhanded to second baseman Brandon Drury to get the third out at second.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
• If one or both rumors are true about the Crimson Tide's recruiting tactics, is that sneaky and underhanded?
  — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Johnson flipped a nifty underhanded pass to Butler for a dunk minutes later.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
• Tejo players take turns tossing disks underhanded and score points by hitting the bull's-eye—a metal ring in the center of a clay pit—or the gunpowder packets that surround it.
  — John Otis, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
• Adams saw no reason that high-minded ideals should shy from underhanded tactics.
  — Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• There are, of course, the shootouts, the inventive ways drugs are trafficked, meddling law enforcement agents and underhanded plots and betrayals.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• In the pre-digital era, Britain’s fiercely competitive tabloid newspapers sold millions of copies a day and would go to great lengths to get scoops, including by using underhanded techniques.
  — Jill Lawless, Fortune Europe, 18 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024