cheating vs underhanded

cheating

adj
  • Unsporting or underhand. 

  • Unfaithful or adulterous. 

noun
  • The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location. 

  • An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity. 

underhanded

adj
  • Understaffed. 

  • Done by moving the hand (and arm) from below. 

  • Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating. 

  • Insincere; sarcastic. 

  • An underhanded compliment is actually criticism. 

  • Secret; surreptitious. 

  • His underhanded trick backfired and he was disqualified. 

adv
  • In an underhanded manner. 

noun
  • Devious people, collectively. 

How often have the words cheating and underhanded occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )