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underling

[ uhn-der-ling ]

noun

  1. a subordinate, especially one of slight importance.

    Synonyms: hireling, lackey, flunky, menial



underling

/ ˈʌndəlɪŋ /

noun

  1. a subordinate or lackey


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Word History and Origins

Origin of underling1

1125–75; Middle English. See under-, -ling 1

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Example Sentences

Christine is very flirtatious, giggling, caressing, and locking eyes with her ambitious underling.

As Stanley was absorbing this information, in walked Whitey, with his underling Kevin Weeks.

The other possibility is that the smear campaign is the handiwork of an off-the-script underling.

When he had pointed that out to an underling he was off again, and Raf was free to continue his crab's progress.

A casually minded Government took no notice of the little incident, which after all only concerned an Armenian underling.

Persis could not conceivably mate herself for life to a peevish underling like him.

Sometimes he is merely an underling, as in the case of the Massachusetts Kiehtan, and his more familiar subordinate, Hobamoc.

A huge reward was offered in the hope that it might induce some discontented underling in the band to expose his comrades.

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