Translation examples
adverb
Los Estados Miembros deben trabajar para reformar la Organización de un modo que fortalezca los principios que han inspirado su creación en vez de tratar solapadamente de reafirmar el derecho de intervención de las antiguas Potencias coloniales y las Potencias neocoloniales.
Member States should work to reform the Organization in a way that would strengthen the principles which had inspired its creation rather than seek in an underhanded manner to reassert the right of intervention of the former colonial and neo-colonial Powers.
- Es probable. Tal vez acumulaste resentimiento y decidiste cobrártelo solapadamente.
You might have built up a resentment and paid it off in some underhand way.
Qué solapadamente había actuado, y qué animadversión albergaba en su insignificante ser.
How underhanded she had been, and with such animosity in her mousy being.
Si me iba a vengar, tenía que ser solapadamente, pero entonces ¿cómo iba a volver a mirar a la cara al doctor Prescott?
If I were to have my revenge, it would have to be underhanded, and how then was I ever to look Mr. Prescott in the face again?
La cogió solapadamente con la mano izquierda y alteró sutilmente el ángulo del movimiento, rotándola para lanzar otra estocada hacia el frente de izquierda a derecha.
He caught it with an underhand grip with his left and subtly altered the angle of momentum, rolling it completely around to stab out in front of him, again left to right.
Era una expresión de inocencia extática, casi beatífica, que rara vez se ve si no es en las caras de hombres que perpetran solapadamente algún acto vil, o algo que ellos, por la vergüenza de la infancia, consideran vil.
It was an expression of rapt, almost beatified innocence, one seldom seen but on the faces of men carrying on some vile commission underhand, or something which they, for childhood’s shame, consider vile.
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