undercrafting

Verb

undercraft (third-person singular simple present undercrafts, present participle undercrafting, simple past and past participle undercrafted)

1. (obsolete) To outwit; to outmaneuver.
   • In mock obeisance bow him low And he succumbs your slave: a show Of high respect will undercraft His cunning wit!1901, Charles Richard Panter, Granuaile: A Queen of the West, page 94
2. To make with insufficient craftsmanship.
   • Quite recently I had a piece published in a special Latino issue of a respected literary magazine, and though the cast now includes Cuban and Puerto Rican writers as well, the themes are still the same, and much of the writing is disappointingly simplistic or undercrafted.1999, Marilyn Kallet, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Sleeping with One Eye Open, page 137

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