underdealing
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Noun
underdealing (countable and uncountable, plural underdealings)
- Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; trickery.
- 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter XII, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 122:
- But mentions not that by his underdealing to debauſh Armies heer at home, [...]
Verb
underdealing
- present participle and gerund of underdeal