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understatement

[ uhn-der-steyt-muhnt, uhn-der-steyt- ]

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noun

the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts:
The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.

understatement

A form of irony in which something is intentionally represented as less than it is: “Hank Aaron was a pretty good ball player.”

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To say I’m disappointed, frustrated are all understatements.

It is not an understatement to say that this is the most anticipated book release of the season—if not the year.

To call Nia Long an ageless beauty would be an understatement.

To say that this has been a stressful year is a gross understatement.

To say that the travel industry has been hit hard by the pandemic is an understatement.

That may sound like the understatement of the century, and maybe it is.

And considering his massive music-industry thumb print, that “you oughta know” Jack Antonoff is an understatement.

To say that the past few years have been a watershed period of improvement for LGBT America is an understatement.

To say that James Gunn is ecstatic is a vast understatement.

It was a massive understatement when Frieden said, “This is a very delicate area, so to speak.”

Howells realized the unwisdom and weakness of dogmatic insistence, and the strength of understatement.

This is the typical understatement of Old English rhetoric: it can only point to deliberate treachery on the part of the Eotens.

There is more danger of doing the injustice of understatement in commemorating a character so rounded and symmetrical.

You can say I have gone out on a trial run, which won't be a lie, only an understatement.

Her every manner convinced you comments as such were guilty of the grossest understatement.

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