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Discover LudwigThe word "underplot" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a subplot in a novel or movie that happens alongside the main plot. For example: The underplot of the novel provided insight into the main character's motivations.
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underplot
noun
A subplot; a plot that is not the main plot of a story.
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Once again, the show will try to juggle the romance of journalism, which it handles creditably if formulaically, with crime and mystery, which, based on past performance and the evidence of early episodes, will be underplotted and a bit plodding.
But when the band wasn't heading for an apex or reaching it, the music felt underplotted.
"Haunted" is perhaps underplotted and definitely overwritten.
But the movie is so underplotted that the mystery dissipates.
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