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underbellyun‧der‧bel‧ly /ˈʌndəˌbeli $ -ər-/ noun [singular] literary - But they have seen the underbelly of working motherhood, and I think they have taken in all its lessons.
- From the catwalk they surveyed this choked cavern which lay beneath even the underbelly of the city.
- It exposes the grim underbelly to the sentimental images captured by the town's celebrated photographer Frank Sutcliffe.
- Sheltered by the underbelly of that small pedestrian bridge, I would practice my singing.
- That double standard was the underbelly of every easy laugh stand-up comedians got when they did hooker jokes.
- The Panhandle was the butt end of the underbelly of the city, and was lucky to have plumbing.
- What obviously attracted Motion to Wainewright is the way his life represents the underbelly of the romantic movement.
► soft underbelly They needed to find the soft underbelly of their opponents. 1the unpleasant parts of a place or society that are normally hiddenunderbelly of photographs that capture the underbelly of the United States – its poverty, its injustice, and its alienated underclass2the weakest part of an organization or a person’s character, that is most easily attacked or criticizedunderbelly of They needed to find the soft underbelly of their opponents.3the lower part of an animal’s body, including the stomach |