Understatement is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UNDERSTATEMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of understating
• the presentation of something as being smaller or less good or important than it really is
• The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
• a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to represent as less than is the case

Words related to UNDERSTATEMENT

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Words that contain UNDERSTATEMENT

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How to use UNDERSTATEMENT in a sentence

• There are some people whose rhetoric consists of a slight habitual understatement.
• There is more danger of doing the injustice of understatement in commemorating a character so rounded and symmetrical.
• Exaggeration of phrase, as well as the studied understatement which is an even more effective form of ridicule, seem natural products of American humour.
• In reading this diary one is much charmed with its constant understatement of romantic and perilous incidents and conditions.

Similar words containing DERSTATEM without suffix ent and without prefix un

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