undergrown

Example Sentences

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The undergrown underdog could be Peter Parker before he became Spider-Man.

From Time • Jul. 22, 2011

They are all overgrown boys, designed to appeal to the undergrown boys who are this movie's prime audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

Compared to Narcissus, he looked like an undergrown troll.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Are the Olympians being spiteful, leaving you with no company except this undergrown fool?

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

They had followed a creek all the way, or nearly so, and now came somewhat suddenly on a large reedy waterhole, walled on all sides by dense stringy bark-timber, thickly undergrown with scrub.

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry