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- adjective
illuminated from beneath - adjective poorly, or insufficiently illuminated
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Examples
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For every two seats there's a small, underlit table from which to dine.
Theatrics in Williamsburg Dana Rubinstein 2011
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In Charles Vidor's evergreen 1946 oddity Gilda – a studio-bound noir thriller that often feels more like an underlit musical comedy – the imperishable, impossible and irreplaceable Rita Hayworth reaches out across nearly seven decades of vanished time to prove that she still, with one extended little finger and a blunderbuss double-entendre, has the power to knock every man in the audience flat on his ass.
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I went there a couple of times: it was full of drunken contractors, and this, plus the underlit tables and retro 1970s lamps, gave the place a feverish, menacing glamour.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Since most stores are woefully underlit, the newest in LED bulbs offer magnificent options.
Jeffrey Hutchison: Retail's New Year's Resolutions Jeffrey Hutchison 2011
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With a dip in the dark standing-seam metal, the roof gets a winglike lift that, underlit at dusk, conjures a certain blackbird.
A Visitor Center Where Poe Heard a Knocking Julie V. Iovine 2011
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I went there a couple of times: it was full of drunken contractors, and this, plus the underlit tables and retro 1970s lamps, gave the place a feverish, menacing glamour.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The young women are sitting in underlit gloom around a kitchen table, accompanying themselves by using cottage cheese tubs as percussion instruments, with amazing, deadpan skill.
Spencer Critchley: How Viral Works: Tracing the Take-off of Erato's "Call Your Girlfriend" Spencer Critchley 2011
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Characters hang around monochromatic tavern cellars and underlit city streets and a mansion which looks like a steampunk haunted frat house, but bright swaths of color decorate the screen, and the people themselves seem almost to glow.
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The young women are sitting in underlit gloom around a kitchen table, accompanying themselves by using cottage cheese tubs as percussion instruments, with amazing, deadpan skill.
Spencer Critchley: How Viral Works: Tracing the Take-off of Erato's "Call Your Girlfriend" Spencer Critchley 2011
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Since most stores are woefully underlit, the newest in LED bulbs offer magnificent options.
Jeffrey Hutchison: Retail's New Year's Resolutions Jeffrey Hutchison 2011
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