"undercut the quality" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to diminish or reduce the quality of something. You can use it when discussing a situation where the quality of something is lowered or compromised in some way. For example: "The use of cheap materials has undercut the quality of this product." "Her negative comments about the company's products have undercut the quality of their brand image." "The rush to finish the project on a tight deadline has unfortunately undercut the quality of our work."
Nobody wins by undercutting the quality of jobs by flooding the market with guest workers.
For some reason, you seem to be addicted to this phrase, and it undercuts the quality of your reporting.
They know that desiring the same thing their masters have in spades, that by kneecapping the creators of content, the hewers of material, the sculptors of tools, by undercutting the quality of the product in order to secure even greater yields, they would virtually ensure the end of, dare I say, all we profess to hold dear in this country.
Like the thin cars, they undercut the iconic qualities of certain cars — to transform a svelte Porsche into a pudgy roadster, as he has done, is a joke in itself.
There was also a reticence that undercut the corrosive qualities in stretches of Shostakovich's Trio No. 2 in E minor, in which Mr. Quint and Mr. Neiman were joined by Andrei Tchekmazov, a cellist.
The solo cello line, too, has a lilting and sometimes soaring quality that draws on the characteristic sweetness of Mr. Ma's sound, without letting that quality undercut the work's own poignancy.
The eager-to-please quality undercut the fact that she was uttering base truths that, pondered routinely, would likely keep us from functioning happily in the world.
They've done it by building barbershops, stocking them with new and functional equipment, and then hiring the cheap labor of illegal or ambiguous Ethiopian migrants to compete with or even undercut the traditional barbers on quality and price.
They've done it by building barbershops, stocking them with new and functional equipment, and then hiring the cheap labour of illegal or ambiguous Ethiopian migrants to compete with or even undercut the traditional barbers on quality and price.
