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Meanings
1
Modern colloquial use for actions that are sly, underhanded, or not playing fair. Often used in negative evaluations of someone's tactics.
You shouldn't use such underhanded methods.
His way of doing things is sneaky and untrustworthy.
2
Original meaning: a temporary measure or stopgap solution. Now rare and mostly replaced by the modern sense; still encountered in older texts or formal explanations.
That is nothing more than a stopgap measure.