Definition of "underbelly" []

• The soft belly or underside of an animal's body. Also called underbody. (noun)
• The vulnerable or weak part: "So much . . . can be learned from these and other neglected sources from the underbelly of traditional scholarship” ( Stephen Jay Gould). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Okay, at the risk of revealing my soggy, maudlin underbelly ... this made me a smidgen weepy."
• "The stupidity that excretes from the mouths of the rightwing underbelly is just astonishing"
• "Hey Dougie, thank you for confirming my 1st post: "The stupidity that excretes from the mouths of the rightwing underbelly is just astonishing.""