understatement

Example Sentences

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Grace and Faith must work together, using their namesake virtues to outsmart the scoundrels and stay alive, and to say it’s far less effective than it was seven years ago is an understatement.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

To describe Italy's qualifying campaign as anything other than eventful would be quite the understatement.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

“To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the dismissal order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it,” Cannon wrote.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

As one interviewee says, with some degree of understatement, Sun Ra was “wired a little differently.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

“Wow,” he said, feeling dumb at such a monumental understatement.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner