underling

Example Sentences

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“Fuze’s” version of a joke is when an anxious underling pipes up to ask for permission to speak.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Our last glimpse of Dedra shows her shoeless and cowering in a prison cell, destined to be as forgotten as her boss and every other underling who fails the Emperor.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

What kind of terrible employer has an underling borrow against his own home to cover up his boss’s sordid lies and extra-marital affairs?

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2024

These genetic variants also appeared to be deleterious to protein function suggesting that disruption of lysosomal activity may be underling the development of Parkinson's disease combined with pesticide exposure.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

Inside he was quaking with fear, but outside he gave the Keeper as cold and imperious a look as El Patron had ever mustered to terrify an underling.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer