underhandedly

1. 1.

   slyly and secretly

   “Mean revenge, committed underhand”

   “oldline aristocratic diplomats underhandedly undermined the attempt...to align Germany with the Western democracies”

   Synonymsunderhand

Questions about underhandedly

What does underhandedly mean?

underhandedly means "slyly and secretly".

How many syllables are in underhandedly?

underhandedly has 5 syllables and divides as un-der-han-ded-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for underhandedly?

Close synonyms include underhand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.