Example Sentences

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Milbanke—materialist born—heard only the words, noting nothing of the undermeaning.

From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

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 Gatlin, Dana

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 Trench, Richard Chenevix