单词 | under-parted |
释义 | under-partedadj. rare. Of an actor: cast in an insufficient role. Cf. undercast v. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [adjective] > cast, type-cast, or miscast parted1612 under-parted1890 overparted1896 type-cast1946 1890 G. 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 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 15 Jan. 75/2 Miss May Harvey..is almost dangerously underparted. 1984 Daily 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1890 |
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