Example sentences for: underrated

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

  • If I want to spend my salary on an ad saying that Alfonse D'Amato is a distinguished statesman and a much underrated thinker, I'm free to do so.

  • (Actually, this joke was first made by E. Max Frye in his underrated 1993 farce Amos & Andrew , in which a Spike-like playwright has a Broadway hit called Yo Brother, Where Art Thou?

  • They may also have underrated the new technology because "no self-standing air campaign has ever before been mounted with precision weapons."

  • You'd think Petersen would have fun staging an airborne showdown, but there's not a scene in Air Force One that wasn't done 10 times better in the underrated Kurt Russell hijacked-airplane thriller, Executive Decision . That movie had the good sense to leave its absurd politics (first Chechen, then Middle Eastern) on the margins, and to focus instead on the scary ordeal of being stuck on a plane piloted by crazies.

  • Critics deem Hurt a much underrated talent and say his performance evokes the protagonist of Thomas Mann's 1912 Death in Venice . "A creep, but a true hero" (David Denby, New York ). (Edelstein reviews the film in Slate .)


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