Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Below the belt   /bɪlˈoʊ ðə bɛlt/   Listen
Below the belt

adverb
1.
In an unfair manner.  Synonym: unfairly.  "Their accusations hit below the belt"





Click any word on the page to get its definition
WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University
Text size:  A A


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Below the belt" Quotes from Famous Books



... house came Dot, Twaddles' twin sister. Her hair-ribbon drooped perilously on the end of a straggling lock of dark hair and her pretty dark blue frock hung in a gap below the belt where it had pulled loose at the gathers. Dot always had trouble about keeping her ...
— Four Little Blossoms on Apple Tree Island • Mabel C. Hawley
 Read full book for free!
... to get money, for I've given that up long, long ago. I wanted to tell you that I spend my days now thanking both God and the devil for the plight you are in at last. I believe prayers are answered—you bet I do—you bet, you bet! I've prayed to have you hit below the belt, and it has come in good measure. I see from the way you look that you feel it. Ah, ha! you know now, don't you, how it feels to squirm under public scorn and lose something you hold dear? They tell me old Mitchell sees through you and is leaving all he's got to Virginia ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
 Read full book for free!
... outstretched legs and without display of any indecency to the curious. When they rose, they would smooth over the sand, so as to leave no trace to excite obscene thoughts. Never was a child rubbed with oil below the belt; the rest of their bodies thus retained its fresh bloom and down, like a velvety peach. They were not to be seen approaching a lover and themselves rousing his passion by soft modulation of the voice and lustful gaze. At table, they would not have dared, before those older than themselves, ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al
 Read full book for free!
... fair to strike a fellow that way, when he ain't expecting it," growled the assassin. "Why didn't you stand still like a man and not hit below the belt?" ...
— The Telegraph Messenger Boy - The Straight Road to Success • Edward S. Ellis
 Read full book for free!


Words linked to "Below the belt" :   pugilism, unjust, boxing, fairly, fisticuffs, unfair, unfairly


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com