underdealing

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noun

Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; trickery.

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Meanings

noununderdealing (countable and uncountable, plural underdealings)

plural underdealings

  1. countableuncountableCrafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; trickery.

    But mentions not that by his underdealing to debauſh Armies heer at home, [...]

    1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter XII, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 122
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of underdeal

Origin

From under- + dealing.

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Chicago

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