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understatement

noun as in restrained statement

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To say I’m disappointed, frustrated are all understatements.

It is not an understatement to say that this is the most anticipated book release of the season—if not the year.

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To call Nia Long an ageless beauty would be an understatement.

To say that this has been a stressful year is a gross understatement.

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To say that the travel industry has been hit hard by the pandemic is an understatement.

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That may sound like the understatement of the century, and maybe it is.

And considering his massive music-industry thumb print, that “you oughta know” Jack Antonoff is an understatement.

To say that the past few years have been a watershed period of improvement for LGBT America is an understatement.

To say that James Gunn is ecstatic is a vast understatement.

It was a massive understatement when Frieden said, “This is a very delicate area, so to speak.”

Howells realized the unwisdom and weakness of dogmatic insistence, and the strength of understatement.

This is the typical understatement of Old English rhetoric: it can only point to deliberate treachery on the part of the Eotens.

There is more danger of doing the injustice of understatement in commemorating a character so rounded and symmetrical.

You can say I have gone out on a trial run, which won't be a lie, only an understatement.

Her every manner convinced you comments as such were guilty of the grossest understatement.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to understatement, such as: distortion, litotes, restraint, and underestimate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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