underhandedly
advEtymology From underhanded + -ly.
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In an underhanded manner.
- Because that democratic process did not initially support one of Hutchinson's choices of candidates, he points the finger at "leadership" and implies that things were underhandedly rigged from the start.1983 December 24, Eric E. Rofes, “On Growing Pains”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 5: