Crossword-Solution: UNDERSTATEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Understatement | n. | The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with UNDERSTATEMENT (5)
But he found some difficulty in recounting his good fortune: he was naturally no boaster, he had no desire to impress Collinson with his penetration, nor the undaunted energy he had displayed in getting up his company and opening the mine, so that he was actually embarrassed by his own understatement; and under the grave, patient eyes of his companion, told his story at best lamely.
Perhaps his association with Artemus Ward had awakened a new perception of the humorous idea—a humor of repression, of understatement.
Howells realized the unwisdom and weakness of dogmatic insistence, and the strength of understatement.
They are certainly the most evil-tempered of all creatures; to say they are touchy is a dangerous understatement.
With gentle understatement, Howard asserted that his compost was genuinely superior to anything ever known before.
Quotes with UNDERSTATEMENT (3)
Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I’ve said is…an understatement.
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.
People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1955).