undersing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To sing inadequately, or with too little vocal effort.
Example Sentences
- "…the enthusiastic borderism of Scott, who, rather than that a freebooter should under-act his part, or a bard undersing his praise, took the liberty of sometimes inventing the action and then resounding its glories, and debiting both to the account of originals, quite innocent of either."
- "But the night’s true indictment of country’s man problem was the dullness of the performances by male stars exponentially more famous than Mr. Stapleton: Zac Brown, undersinging on “Beautiful Drug”; Kenny Chesney’s lethargic turn on “Save It for a Rainy Day”; Blake Shelton mugging for the cameras on “Gonna,” Dierks Bentley needlessly stoic on “Riser.”"
- "Alas me! what a murmur and motion I hear, As of birds flying near! And the air undersings The soft stroke of their wings— And all life that approaches, I wait for in fear."
- "Other post-Spenserian undersongs resonate with some of these implications… But even here, the stream of time is clearly the source of the Spenserian undersinging."