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underhanded. We know that four centuries ago card sharks were as proficient at palming cards, holding extra cards under their hands, as sharpsters are today. Such cheating, widespread as it has always been, may have suggested the expression under- handed, “in a secret or stealthy manner,” though the first writer to use the word in this sense (1545) refers to a plain thief “steal- ing under hande or craftily.” |