What does underperson mean?
Underperson means A person of low status..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A person of low status..
If you bargained for overlords and underpeople. Then you surely bargained for death instead of life.
It has always been easy to kill an underperson, a savage, a worthless person, a sinner who is not like us, ...
Changing one's status as an underperson living in an underworld often sounds better than it is in fact since the transition is long and difficult.
For I felt sure these underpeople had taken it.
Life is no longer the long, easy ride the true men are accustomed to, and although life is not exactly fraught with peril, the true men learn of vulnerability and danger, things that the underpeople have long lived with.
The Administrator sent me here on a crazy errand, killing an unknown underperson. I find out that the person is really a little girl. Then I find out that she is not an underperson, but a frightening old dead woman, still walking around alive.
These underpeople were even less human than the androids, their very appearance making obvious their animal origins.
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Underperson means A person of low status..
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If you bargained for overlords and underpeople. Then you surely bargained for death instead of life.
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