Example sentences for: underrated

How can you use “underrated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Skeptics countered that the Army underrated itself in order to get more money.

  • In one stroke, this underrated actress takes herself out of the blond-airhead class.

  • 2) Coolidge is underrated: His Yankee reserve hid a sharp wit and thoughtful personality, and he fought for small government and low taxes.

  • Critics rank Spike Lee's Oedipal basketball drama--starring Denzel Washington as a convict and the NBA's Ray Allen as his estranged son--at the top of his oeuvre . After paying Lee's recent films scant attention, they declare him "underrated" and "overlooked" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). They're pleased to find that Allen can act, that Washington has a mean streak, and that Lee critiques capitalism more than he does racism.

  • The concepts of overrated and underrated inevitably intersect with this discussion, because to be described as either of these things one must display a degree both of knownness and of hypeness.


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