What's the difference between brought and underhand?

Brought


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bring

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (2) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (3) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (4) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
  • (5) Reaction of 1,2-epoxycyclohexane with theophylline and 8-halotheophyllines in n-butanol n-propanol DMF medium brought up a good yield of the corresponding trans-diequatorial-DL-7-(2'-hydroxycyclohexyl-1')-derivatives (I - III).
  • (6) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
  • (7) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
  • (8) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
  • (9) If it is proven he did, he must be brought to justice, said the politician.
  • (10) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
  • (11) After all, he reminds us, the Smiths can take no credit for the place, having only been born and brought up there, not responsible for its size and stature.
  • (12) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
  • (13) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
  • (14) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
  • (15) Opposition politicians such as Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan , brought low for daring to disagree.
  • (16) When I commiserate about the overnight flight that brought them here, Linney gives a wry grimace.
  • (17) The combination of Azathioprine and Cyclosporin A brought with a 1-year function rate of 54% better results in comparison to the singular application of Azathioprine (22%) and Cyclosporin A (41%).
  • (18) The present findings imply that patients in whom an apparent cure has been brought about by conservative treatment may harbor latent malignancy.
  • (19) "I don't think I will be able to rest until they are all brought to justice," he said.
  • (20) The websites of Visa, Mastercard and PayPal were brought down; so too the Swedish government's.

Underhand


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
  • (2) Sly, underhanded, contemptuous, mendacious, double-dealing, cheating democracy.
  • (3) It is plain that, by means up-front and underhand, unemployment benefit is being systematically destroyed as a reliable source of income.
  • (4) We are going to work it out.” Mercedes’ executive director, Toto Wolff, said of the feud: “As long as it isn’t detrimental to the team spirit, as long as it is not underhand, we will handle the situation in the way we did before.
  • (5) The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.
  • (6) In 2006, Norris told the Observer: "I never became involved with underhand dealings or giving money to coppers."
  • (7) However, the health secretary is likely to face a parliamentary inquiry into his department’s figures after the Commons public accounts committee accused him of “underhand” behaviour in publishing his department’s figures on the last day before MPs leave for their summer break.
  • (8) They say they are the target of underhand plots by their political opponents.
  • (9) Some member states saw it as an underhand way for the UK to get an advantage.
  • (10) This time, the senior point guard made an underhanded flip to Jenkins, who spotted up a pace or two behind the arc and swished it with Carolina’s Isaiah Hicks running at him.
  • (11) The Abbott government should listen to the people of Australia instead of trying to bully them and wear them down with expensive advertising propaganda campaigns and underhanded political tactics.” Even if the PUP decided to support a compromise package, the votes of Lambie, Xenophon and Muir would be enough to defeat the bill when combined with Labor and the Greens.
  • (12) If he is no longer the favoured man, why is the education secretary so underhand in his disapproval?
  • (13) Nor does there need to be personal or commercial gain from underhand behaviour.
  • (14) "They occur where there is a misunderstanding or miscommunication or sometimes something more underhand," says a spokesman.
  • (15) A visual model performing an underhand modified softball pitch was viewed prior to each of four blocks of five practice trials.
  • (16) "In those days, what was considered proper reporting was to do things in as underhand and as deceitful a way as possible.
  • (17) BAE's underhand methods further call into question the intimate relationship between BAE and the government."
  • (18) Transparency campaigners said the groups' funding left them open to allegations of underhand dealings.
  • (19) It might be an underhand way to run a tax system, but it serves Luxembourg well.
  • (20) Such transactions are commonplace in San Francisco and the Silk Road was meant to be their alternative: a place where anyone who wanted drugs could buy them without associating with underhanded dealers or entering dangerous alleyways.