Underwork

Word UNDERWORK
Character 9
Hyphenation un der work un der work
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Underwork"

What do we mean by underwork?

Subordinate work; petty business.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Underwork

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The word "underwork" in example sentences

I suspect I generally underwork the dough in an effort to avoid overworking it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Supposing that rate of increment to go on toward the centre, it is computable that the solid underwork of the world, say granite by way of conjecture, must be in a state of fusion at no vast depth from the ground on which we tread. ❋ Various (N/A)

The broad projecting brow seemed too heavy for its underwork; and by its depression, gave a look of sadness to the countenance, till excited animation raised the eye, beaming vivacity and strength. ❋ An American Lady (N/A)

The pinnacles and upper set-off of the two centre buttresses in the figure were added by Wykeham to Edingdon's underwork. ❋ Philip Walsingham Sergeant (1912)

Many persons confuse overwork with what is really underwork accompanied with worry or unhygienic practices. ❋ Unknown (1910)

There may be some underwork of the devil here: oh, poor me! it is best not to think about it. ❋ Unknown (1909)

But Lablache, its owner, was never one to underwork his men. ❋ Ridgwell Cullum (1905)

In a functional way the derangement may be brought about from overwork or underwork. ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)

In sprig H the underwork consists of stitching in soft cotton, over which thick silk is embroidered in bullion-stitch. ❋ Mary Buckle (1877)

They must not simply skim the surfaces of fear, but strike through into the deep underwork of moral conviction itself. ❋ 1802-1876 (1871)

In this fact, the almost feminine passivity we are likely to figure as the total account of his character, reveals the mighty underwork and robust vigor of a really immortal confidence and tenacity. ❋ 1802-1876 (1871)

He begins low down, at the underwork, we may almost say, of nature, and expects to regenerate, in the supernatural life of faith, only them whom he has first arrested and concluded in sin. ❋ 1802-1876 (1871)

You have brought owned labor with it, to compete with your own labor, to underwork you, and to degrade you! ❋ Abraham Lincoln (1837)

Highlander was expelled, it became more and more necessary to underwork the spinners and weavers of China. ❋ Unknown (1836)

Consolidation of land on one side and a determination to underwork the world on the other, are producing a rapid deterioration of material and moral condition, and, as a natural consequence, there is a steady diminution in the power of local self-government. ❋ Unknown (1836)

This produced, of course, a necessity for new exertions to underwork those nations, leading to constant improvements of machinery, each tending to enable the capitalist more and more to accumulate fortune and purchase land, the consolidation of which has been continued until at length it has resulted in the fact, that in place of the 220,000 ❋ Unknown (1836)

Highlander expelled from the land in which, before Britain undertook to underwork all other nations and thus secure a monopoly for "the workshop of the world," his fathers were as secure in their rights as was the landowner himself. ❋ Unknown (1836)

Undoubtedly there is some secret agent, some underwork, perhaps restraint, of which I am ignorant. ❋ Davis, Matthew L (1836)

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