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under-ˈparted, a. rare.
[under-1 10 a: cf. underpart n. 2.]
Of an actor: cast in an insufficient role. Cf. undercast v. 4.
1890G. B. Shaw in Star 2 May 2/3 Mr Coffin, being a handsome young man, and considerably under-parted to boot, had an easy time of it. 1898― Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) III. 290 Miss May Harvey..is almost dangerously underparted. 1984Daily Tel. 14 Aug. 7/8 Only the underparted Andrew Cruickshank as the Abbot, with his hissed cry of ‘heresy!’ in a superb scene of denunciation, strikes the right balance between malevolence and outrageousness. |