Crossword-Solution: UNDERSTATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Understate | v. t. | To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “UNDERSTATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Describe with deliberate restraint. | 1 answer |
| FAIL to declare fully | 1 answer |
| Lowball | 1 answer |
| Opposite of exaggerate | 1 answer |
| Represent with restraint | 1 answer |
| Sandbag in poker | 1 answer |
| Set forth with restraint | 1 answer |
| Speak with restraint | 1 answer |
| MAKE little of | 5 answers |
| EXAGGERATE (ant.) | 6 answers |
| Play down? | 9 answers |
| Tone down | 31 answers |
| Feign | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with UNDERSTATE (5)
The actual decline, however, may have been less steep, because industrial and agricultural enterprises had strong incentives to understate output to avoid taxes, and official statistics may not have fully captured the output of the growing private sector.
The conclusion attributed to the nameless lady of the legend would be reached to-day, under the like circumstances, by ninety per cent of Polynesians: and here I probably understate by one-tenth.
Though the fathers certainly do not understate the abominations of Paganism, and though the heathen apologists make free use of allegorical (and impossible) interpretations, the evidence of both is often useful and important.
But I believe I very much understate both the height of some of these masses, and overstate the amount which these animals can form in the course of a year; so that you might very safely double the period as the time during which the Pacific Ocean, the general state of the climate, and the sea, and the temperature has been substantially what it is now; and yet that state of things which now obtains in the Pacific Ocean is the yesterday of the history of the life of the globe.
Yet knowing the bias that had been his he was careful to understate rather than to overstate his reasons.
Quotes with UNDERSTATE (3)
You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country’s criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was impos…
You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of this country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of this country's criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by a repressive minority.
I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1964–2012).