Explore Underling through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like subordinate or subsidiary. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Underling meaning
- A subordinate, or person of lesser rank or authority.
- A low, wretched person.
Synonyms of Underling
Using Underling
- The main meaning on this page is: A subordinate, or person of lesser rank or authority. | A low, wretched person.
- Useful related words include: subordinate, subsidiary, foot soldier, assistant.
- In the example corpus, underling often appears in combinations such as: an underling, underling to.
Context around Underling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Underling
- In this selection, "underling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, malevolent, loyal, former, various, dispatched and paolo stand out and add context to how "underling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a former underling of the and a resentful underling points out. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "underling" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with underling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Stratified squamous epithelium and underling connective tissue can be seen. (10 words)
Heard faintly from the basement: “No Joke Jack” – The Boss’s underling. (12 words)
Realizing his underling's cowardice, Akainu did not hesitate before reducing the man to a smoldering pile of pulp. (19 words)
When a resentful underling points out to the long-coasting Katherine that she doesn’t have a single woman in her writers room, a haphazard search leads to the snap hiring of Molly, a comedy superfan with zero writing experience. (40 words)
He had been a Senate committee chairman for most of the previous two decades — the man with the gavel, not an underling dispatched to attend the funerals of foreign leaders, as had been the lot of previous vice presidents. (39 words)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past's incarnation of Ganon was the first to delegate most of his insidious deeds to some malevolent underling—in this case, the dark wizard Agahnim. (34 words)
Example sentences (18)
But he’s unhappy being an underling; he wants to topple Thrawn and seize control of the council for himself.
It is grounded in action,” Jaishankar said, underling various flagship projects like the MGC, MGC scholarships, the Centre for Excellence in Software Development training and the MGC traditional textile museum.
Realizing his underling's cowardice, Akainu did not hesitate before reducing the man to a smoldering pile of pulp.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past's incarnation of Ganon was the first to delegate most of his insidious deeds to some malevolent underling—in this case, the dark wizard Agahnim.
Heard faintly from the basement: “No Joke Jack” – The Boss’s underling.
He had been a Senate committee chairman for most of the previous two decades — the man with the gavel, not an underling dispatched to attend the funerals of foreign leaders, as had been the lot of previous vice presidents.
That was already contradicted by Fauci’s former boss and an underling who admitted he did everything he could to skirt the Freedom of Information Act regulations.
And this is where his godson and apparently loyal underling, Paolo Di Lauro (they are only about 10 years apart, but La Monica effectively adopted Di Lauro) took over.
However, I am her parent, not an underling and what’s more, I’m bigger than her, so very there.
He is a parody of every villain who shoots a messenger or disposes of an underling for cracking the wrong joke at the wrong moment.
It's later revealed that he is a former underling of the Pirate King Gol D. Roger and former friend of the Yonko "Red-Haired" Shanks.
On Tuesday, DWP chief David Wright stepped down and was replaced by an underling I’ve known to be a pretty good guy.
The militant Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for the attack, underling the dangers the country faces even if the Taliban agree a pact with the US.
When a resentful underling points out to the long-coasting Katherine that she doesn’t have a single woman in her writers room, a haphazard search leads to the snap hiring of Molly, a comedy superfan with zero writing experience.
If Trump watched Giuliani’s uncommand performance on Sunday, he probably whipped several cheeseburgers at his giant flat screen while screaming at an underling to get him the number of Lionel Hutz.
According to the Priestly Code Deuteronomic Code only Aaronic priests/ Levites (depending on the underling tradition) were permitted to perform these actions, and simply being a nazarite or prophet was insufficient.
However, each kobun, in turn, can offer sakazuki as oyabun to his underling to form an affiliated organisation, which might in turn form lower ranked organizations.
Stratified squamous epithelium and underling connective tissue can be seen.
Common combinations with underling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an underling 7×
- underling to 2×