meaning
noun
what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import.
undermeaning
-
a word derived from
meaning.
Example Sentences
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There is no surer sign of a bad oppressive rule, than when the titles of the administrators of law, titles which should be in themselves so honourable, thus acquire a hateful undermeaning.
From On the Study of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench
Milbanke—materialist born—heard only the words, noting nothing of the undermeaning.
From The Gambler A Novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston
There had been no romantic undermeaning in all that harp-ukelele business, in the flasket of ice-cream soda, in the mysterious sickness.
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
