underhanded vs upright

underhanded

adj
  • 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. 

  • Understaffed. 

noun
  • Devious people, collectively. 

adv
  • In an underhanded manner. 

upright

adj
  • Vertical; erect 

  • Greater in height than breadth. 

  • Of good morals; practicing ethical values. 

  • Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft. 

  • In its proper orientation; not overturned. 

noun
  • An upright piano. 

  • An upright arcade game cabinet. 

  • A leg 

  • A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic. 

  • A goal post. 

  • Any vertical part of a structure. 

adv
  • In or into an upright position. 

verb
  • To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen). 

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