underlying attitude

collocation in English

meaningsofunderlyingandattitude

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underlying
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
real but not ...
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attitude
noun
uk
/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us
/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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(Definition ofunderlyingandattitudefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunderlying attitude

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But the more dispiritingunderlyingattitudeis that architects cannot be trusted with the public client's money and are not really team players.
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The second survey followed the first in attempting to determine if responses to the four policy items were the manifestation of a singleunderlyingattitude.
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We need to know a good deal more about what is 'cloaked' by this 'underlyingattitudeof bitter philosophical scepticism' and intolerance 'of all preconstituted authority'.
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In some cases theunderlyingattitudeseemed to be "it would not happen to our pupils".
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I was equally astonished, if not more so, at finding out theunderlyingattitudeof discrimination which was so widely felt.
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But there is an obverse side to all this good, which lies in theunderlyingattitudetowards the arts in this country.
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We must rid ourselves of thisunderlyingattitude.
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That is theunderlyingattitudeapparent in speech after speech.
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These results are not explainable by self-perception theory, as arousal should have nothing to do with the mechanismunderlyingattitudechange.
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The word faded away, though, as the beatniks abandoned the underlying attitudes that were supposed to go along with their lifestyle.
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It permanently marked his life, particularly his underlying attitudes and mental state.
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Underlying attitudes and ideology did not change.
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