underact
/ʌndərˈakt
/verb [no object]
Act a part in a play or film in an overly restrained or unemotional way.I think this movie may mark the only time in recorded history when he managed to underact in a part....
- It's a caper film, with all the obligatory touchstones of the genre and everyone underacts to great effect.
- DeNiro underacts brilliantly, creating a character whose obsessive concern for control and order is both his means to the top and his undoing.
Rhymes
- Little Lord Fauntleroy
- little lunch
- littlely
- little mag
- little magazine
- little man
- little mass
- little master
- Little Masters
- little me
- little-minded
- little-mindedness
- Little Missouri River
- little mother
- littleneck
- little Ned
- little Neddy
- littleness
- little ones
- little or nothing
- little (or nothing) short of
- little Orphan Annie
- little Orphant Annie
- Little Ouse
- little owl