01 a. Underhand; clandestine.
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Underhand; clandestine.
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Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated; obsolete in this sense, short-handed or understaffed being the preferrred term.obsolete Also: short-handed, understaffed“Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now.” — Coleridge.