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Example sentences for: understatement

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Plus, it gives Duvall a splendid platform for impish understatement.
The House honchos are exercised over CBO's longstanding overstatement of the budget deficit and its recent understatement of the budget surplus.
It was the primal scene of maternal betrayal, the older woman eliciting the confession all too easily from the younger one and then using it to make her the laughingstock of the nation: Walters asks Lewinsky to imagine hypothetical children; Lewinsky tells them that "Mommy made a big mistake"; Walters concludes with a stunning outburst of moral hypocrisy, "And that is the understatement of the year."
British understatement set the universal standard for male elegance in 1800, and it's holding its own two centuries later.
To say that the record of Opel-designed cars on American highways has been disappointing would be an understatement.