Underhand
['ʌndəhænd] or [,ʌndɚ'hænd]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level; 'an underhand pitch'; 'an underhand stroke' .
整理:玛丽斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent.
(a.) Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow.
(adv.) By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly.
(adv.) In an underhand manner; -- said of pitching or bowling.
錄入:帕特里斯
同義詞及近義詞：
ad. Secretly, privately, clandestinely, fraudulently, underhandedly.
a. Secret, sly, clandestine, disingenuous, unfair, fraudulent, underhanded.
錄入:山姆
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Clandestine, furtive, dishonest, unfair, fraudulent, surreptitious
ANT:Openhanded, straightforward, fair, honest, undisguised
校對:卢瑟
解釋/意思:
adj. and adv. secretly: by secret means: by fraud: in cricket delivered with the hand underneath—opp. to Over-arm and Round-arm.—adj. Underhan′ded clandestinely carried on: short-handed.—adv. Underhan′dedly.—n. Underhan′dedness.
錄入:梅林达
例句/造句/用法:
- She's an underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her age with so much cover. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In her hearing, the Sergeant, with his own underhand object in view, had appealed to my interest in Rosanna Spearman. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But, you see, from the mother's breast the colored child feels and sees that there are none but underhand ways open to it. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- There is some underhand villainy at work to frighten my sister about her approaching marriage. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He always had his great indignation ready against anything underhand. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Then Pablo leaned forward, picked up the key and tossed it underhand to the guard at the door. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- You have not attempted to take any underhand advantage--you have not spoken to my sister in secret. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You have taken your own mean, underhand view of an innocent deception practised on Lady Glyde for her own good. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- My good sir, said the old man, with quiet irony, Englishmen in their time have had to do just such underhand work. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
錄入:梅林达