Sentences with phrase «little underhanded»

It's when it involves distorting things that I find a little underhanded, particularly toward investors.

No one duped me and to have the government forgive part of it seems a little underhanded.

This breeds intense competition, bruised feelings, rampant egoism, and not a little underhanded connivance.

And the way the service was intentionally handicapped to inexplicably not include full runs of popular comics and not offer new releases until weeks or months after they came out always felt a little underhanded to me.

Not exact matches

And shall not memory be able to remind him of that time when he sneaked away by underhanded means, in order to avoid a decision; of that time when he gave the matter another turn, in order to please men; of that time that he deserted his post, in order to let the storm pass over; of that time he knuckled under, in order to secure an easing off of his painful position; of that time he sought refuge and association with others — perhaps, as it is called, in order to work all the more effectively for the Good's victory, that is, in order to make his own position a little less difficult than as though at the midnight hour, somewhat terror - stricken, one stood all alone «with heavily loaded weapons at his dangerous post.»

«These unscrupulous speculators and their underhanded tactics have manipulated the marketplace and often leave New Yorkers and visitors alike with little choice but to buy tickets on the secondary market at an exorbitant mark - up,» Cuomo said.

The underhand grip emphasizes the biceps and lats a little more than the overhand grip.

Starting Position: Begin by holding the bar with an underhand grip a little wider than shoulders width.

Even so, Cameron Diaz, whose sleek, ostentatious attire and spotted tattoos evoke the same dangerous beauty of the pet cheetahs, with Malkina's desire to chase and devour dumber, slower people like little jackrabbits, plays the role in too obvious, conniving a way to ever see her as much more than an underhanded «Medea» from the get go.

Instead of blog posts about the retail giant's underhanded ways or entire three - day conferences devoted to how publishers can bring down the largest online retailer their industry faces, one book shop is going about the competition a little differently, namely by offering the titles that consumers currently can't buy from Amazon.