understatement

Example Sentences

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Segal recalled that she could not tell whether the prince was vastly uninformed or simply demonstrating British understatement.

From The Wall Street Journal

Harry's mother, Sarah Carter, told the court: "Anything I write will be an understatement of the depth of pain."

From BBC

Yet Leo found—his son tells us with eloquent understatement—that “some Germans managed to remain decent, when decency could be very dangerous.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Updating fans in a personal message, the former Smiths frontman said: "It will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement."

From BBC

“Weird is like the biggest understatement of all time,” he said, shoving his hands into his hair.

From Literature