undercut

This observational approach is regularly undercut, unfortunately, by a heavy-handed soundtrack that makes the film feel less trustworthy.

The lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said other recent conduct by Pulte, who is director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, “undercut his criminal referrals concerning Governor Cook.”

This runs a real risk of undercutting part of our humanity.

He also said legal immigrants “are undercutting the wages of American workers.”

The Commerce Department has been inspecting them since the mid-1990s, when it found that many importers were flooding the U.S. with pasta priced below normal market prices in a bid to undercut their U.S. competitors.