understatement

Example Sentences

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Grace and Faith must work together, using their namesake virtues to outsmart the scoundrels and stay alive, and to say it’s far less effective than it was seven years ago is an understatement.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

“To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the dismissal order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it,” Cannon wrote.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

To say the home has seen a lot in the past 15 years is an understatement.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

This has to be the biggest understatement in the world.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko