underbelly

This year, with slightly more worldliness and way fewer drinks consumed, I could see the emotionally fraught underbelly.

She shook me and we both saw its silver underbelly pass by the window of my fifth-floor walk-up in Greenwich Village.

In fact this is a fairly new subculture, albeit one with a dark underbelly of wax-smoking.

The press was at the height of its power when the Monica story began and Drudge was its underbelly.