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    understatement
    [ noun ]
    a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
    <noun.communication>


    Understatement \Un"der*state`ment\, n.
    The act of understating, or the condition of being
    understated; that which is understated; a statement below the
    truth.

    1. "We're not political pros, but we've got political seasoning," says George W. Bush, the vice president's eldest son and a top campaign strategist, in what may be a bit of understatement.
    2. With masterful understatement, Rep. Blanchette describes this transaction as "peculiar."
    3. Jack Grubman, an analyst for PaineWebber Group Inc., said United Telecom sent out "a very strong signal that things are taking shape for Sprint and it's an understatement of where they are headed."
    4. "To say it's the hottest item we've had is an understatement. He's the hottest thing I've seen in 10 years." _ Chris Nilan, sales manager for Nilan's Alley Inc., which sells novelty items to stores throughout the Southeast.
    5. To many Indonesians, Javanese especially, that would be an understatement.
    6. OTS had accused Coopers & Lybrand and Arthur L. Knight, who headed the firm's team that handled the Silverado audit, of: -Accepting an unjustified understatement of Silverado's allowance for loan losses on its $1.3 billion loan portfolio.
    7. Woods argued that he'd paid $3,814 in withheld wage taxes and that the law applies the penalty to the "underpayment," not the "understatement."
    8. The enclave concept, he said, "has never functioned in human history." OAS mediator Hugo De Zela of Peru resorted to understatement in characterizing the status of the talks.
    9. Dingell was unable to testify before the Armed Services panel because of a scheduling conflict, but in a four-page letter to the subcommittee said his early assessment of the program as a "procurement nightmare" may have been an understatement.
    10. With what proved to be prophetic understatement, Value Line observed, "Trying to time market turns is a tricky business and can easily produce unfavorable results if one guesses wrong."
    11. Jerrold Cooper, chairman of the Near Eastern studies department, remarked with a trace of academic understatement: "When a university cuts its faculty after raising half a billion dollars, it's a very, very bad situation."
    12. But this straightforward production has two valuable assets: Alan Arkin, himself a marvelously understated actor, and producers and writers who understand the art of understatement.
    13. Most escape to their rooms eventually, but it is no understatement to say that playing for England abroad is more of an ordeal than an honour. And yet there are parallels between the players and their followers.
    14. "To say it's mismanagement not to have performed them is an understatement."
    15. The beguilingly simple Song period (11th-12th century) dish in the form of a seven-petalled mallow flower is the show's tour-de-force of exquisite understatement.
    16. His slinky short silk shifts in all colors topped by floaty mousseline squares were perfect in their understatement.
    17. In the understatement of the video year, his wife tells him he's a very sick man, and she takes the kid and leaves him.
    18. "We found there was an understatement" of their taxable income on their tax filings during that period, she said.
    19. There is only one way in which the visual beauty and understatement of "Mary Phagan" undercut the story it is trying to tell, and that is in its depiction of hardship.
    20. He remained a model of understatement in his maturity.
    21. Mr. Giuliani seems to lack, to risk understatement, a sensitivity to office politics.
    22. The cleanup "is not proceeding well _ believe me, that is an understatement," Iarossi said Monday. "We've got a mess on our hands." "It's unbelievable.
    23. To describe the clubhouse as lavish would be typical British understatement.
    24. Data from the International Monetary Fund reveal an apparent understatement of U.S. G-7 exports throughout the 1980s.
    25. Mr Giulio Andreotti had just sat down to lunch in the foreign press club in Rome and was talking with his characteristic mix of understatement and deadpan humour. Suddenly the lights went out to the sound of confusion in the kitchens.
    26. "Yes, he could really paint," said Walter Hopps, director of the Menil Collection in Houston, in an understatement.
    27. To say the other banks are angry "would be an understatement," one banker said.
    28. They like understatement and they certainly do not want a heavy, Teutonic look.' The new 7-Series takes over from the models launched in 1986.
    29. LIGHT was was shed on some of the darker recesses of Whitehall secrecy yesterday, but Mr John Major's latest exercise in open government had an air of studied understatement about it.
    30. In an understatement of a statement, the company said, "Insufficient information exists to enable investors to make fully informed decisions" at this time (though it added that it had about $29 million in insurance).
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