Words similar to understatement

Example sentences for: understatement

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

To call his recollections "unreliable" would be a massive understatement.
The House honchos are exercised over CBO's longstanding overstatement of the budget deficit and its recent understatement of the budget surplus.
To say that the record of Opel-designed cars on American highways has been disappointing would be an understatement.
It would be an understatement to describe the Italians as sports enthusiasts, at least as far as spectator sports are concerned.
British understatement set the universal standard for male elegance in 1800, and it's holding its own two centuries later.