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: un-der-han-ded-ly. The stress falls on "han".

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.

Is underhandedly a common word?

underhandedly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.