She is successful to a degree, but the tiles themselves somewhat undermine the effect.

This somewhat undermined the effect he'd sought to create with his walking stick.

The effect was somewhat undermined by the rapid blinking of one eye.

The fact that you're second to comment within seven minutes of the article going live somewhat undermines your affected cynicism.

It must be said that the band felt somewhat undermined by their label's lack of support and failure to market the album adequately.

Absorbing lower-wage workers in host nations means that domestic wages are at least somewhat undermined.

He was handsome enough in an undemanding way, the impression somewhat undermined by a sulky mouth.

This data somewhat undermines the traditional economic explanation of the concentration of female labor in agriculture.

Bremer's discoveries about the young Winthrop somewhat undermine his stature.

It looks as though the Guardian's puff piece about its own app has been somewhat undermined by the comment below the line...