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Wily vs Underhand - What's the difference?

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Wily is a related term of underhand.


As adjectives the difference between wily and underhand

is that wily is sly, cunning, full of tricks while underhand is secret; clandestine.

As an adverb underhand is

with an underhand movement.

wily

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • sly, cunning, full of tricks
    • Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

    Synonyms

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    underhand

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • secret; clandestine
  • (by extension) dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner
  • thrown (etc.) with the hand brought forward and up from below

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • with an underhand movement
  • in a sly, sneaky or secret manner