Sentence example with the word 'understatement'

understatement

abstractionism, distortion, false coloring, hyperbole, litotes, mispainting, misrepresentation, nonrealism, perversion, restraint, subduedness

Definition n. a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said

Last update: October 26, 2015


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That was the understatement of the year.   [Please select]

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"Now there's a cautious understatement," he commented.   [Please select]

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The house is said to be three hundred and seventy-five years old, but we are convinced that this is a wicked understatement of its antiquity.   [Please select]

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It is an understatement to say, as we look about our modern world, that Christianity has not been tried yet.   [Please select]

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And it's only three or four houses----" Sonia shook her head, unconvinced by his understatement."   [Please select]

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What moderation, and understatement, and checking his thunder in mid volley.   [Please select]

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Taken literally, however, it was an understatement of the facts and wholly insincere.   [Please select]

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