understatement
Example Sentences
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To describe Italy's qualifying campaign as anything other than eventful would be quite the understatement.
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Saying that the Bank is in "wait and see" mode, is an understatement.
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Segal recalled that she could not tell whether the prince was vastly uninformed or simply demonstrating British understatement.
Harry's mother, Sarah Carter, told the court: "Anything I write will be an understatement of the depth of pain."
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Yet Leo found—his son tells us with eloquent understatement—that “some Germans managed to remain decent, when decency could be very dangerous.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
