Shonda Rhimes

Scandal' has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real world understood how dark, twisted and corrupt it really was, they would never agree with our government or want to be part of it. It's been kind of fun to live in that world. It felt like a fictional world.

American Producer

Paula Hawkins

I have a fascination with the nasty things people do to each other and the way relationships go wrong, and how there can be this very dark underbelly to seemingly normal, mundane domestic life. They're the stories in the newspapers I always find interesting. That's not a very nice thing to admit to, is it?

American Politician

Ted Dekker

My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

Indonesian Author

Peter Mullan

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

Scottish Actor

Janet Varney

When you share something about your adolescence, it's a way to roll over and show your soft underbelly when it comes to talking about your past and the person that you once were.

American Actress

Russell Simmons

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

American Businessman

Tim Miller

In 'Deadpool,' we stayed far away from the shiny, clean X-Men world. It's really the seedy underbelly of what's been shown in other superhero films.

American Director

Richard Ashcroft

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

English Musician

Natasha Lyonne

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

Watkin Tudor Jones

Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

South African Musician

Often used metaphorically to discuss hidden or negative aspects of something that seem better on the surface.

Metaphorical Use

'Underbelly' typically has a negative connotation, implying something unsavory or undesirable.

Negative Connotation

Refers to what is not immediately visible or presented to the public, usually hidden intentionally.

Public vs Private

Highlights a weak or problematic aspect not immediately obvious. Often used in social criticism.

Weakness Highlighted

Used in discussions critical of institutions or systems, emphasizing their faults or failings.

Use in Critique

Implies the existence of an unpleasant reality as an integral, though negative, part of something.

Unpleasant Reality

In biology, 'underbelly' is a neutral term describing the underside of an animal without negative implications.

Biological Term

Helps describe animals physically, focusing on the lowermost part of the body.

Physical Description

 they've got this long tail so the tail is what's closest to us at the moment very difficult to make out and what's actually going on but the tail is closest to us and it rolls round and protects their head and the head tucks in and those hard scales will protect the soft underbelly where the legs and the face is so that they don't get hurt when things like lions come across them

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 and that's informed my perspective on things. I've been a street police officer, an undercover investigator, a counter-terrorism strategist, and I've worked in more than 70 countries around the world. I've had to see more than my fair share of violence and the darker underbelly of society,

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 Why? I kind of hate to say it, because it gets to the dark underbelly of advertising, which is if you tell a big enough lie enough times, eventually that lie becomes the truth. And that's exactly what's happened here. The corporate gun lobby has spent billions of dollars

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 maybe we measure that by do they retweet it if they don't care they're not retweeting then they're not wasting your their friends time on what anything I would have said but people would retweet it and then this was my evidence that there was an underserved underbelly of

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 renouncing materialism, traditional jobs and university degrees in exchange for a glimmer of adventure. Others come from the underbelly of society, never given a chance to mobilize foster care dropouts, teenage runaways escaping abuse and unforgiving homes.

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 police officer an undercover investigator a counterterrorism strategist and I've worked in more than 70 countries around the world I've had to see more than my fair share of violence and the darker underbelly of society and that's informed my opinions

A vision of crimes in...

 That means that for the two years or three years of his life, he is basically sending money to pay for the recruitment fees. The family doesn't get to see any of it. It is not only Dubai, it is the dark underbelly of every major city in the world.

Dilip Ratha: The hidden...

 And, you know, it was really it was almost like the mountain was showing us its underbelly, it was showing us a window into the sub-surface, you know. And it would be in the roots of one of those trees that my life would really change.

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 the sequence and direction of waves, the flight patterns of certain birds. Even the slightest hint of color on the underbelly of a cloud would inform them and help them navigate with the keenest accuracy.

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 if this was murky water a flash of his white leg might look like a fish underbelly and cause an attack

Underbelly

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Negative Connotation

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