understate

How To Use understate In A Sentence

• Some rooms were once first-floor barns and feature original timber and stone in very modern but understated designs.
• To say she was superstitious was an understatement - she would book every single Friday 13 th off work, and any day that looked inauspicious on her horoscope.
• The implications of the refusal of the hand are clear and yet beautifully understated.
• To say that her resignation was a shock would be an understatement - it caused panic.
• The sequence is thus all the more powerful for its brevity and understatement.
• It has been long known as a patrician, white-shoe firm with an air so understated and secretive that at least one former exec likened it to working at the CIA.
• It was quiet and strong and understated and open-hearted: all qualities which define this character. Lenny Kravitz to Play Cinna in Hunger Games
• They both have a powerful sense of humour and an understated wit that makes you look very carefully at what's on the page in case you miss anything.
• As an actor, Poitier was quite effective in his understated, quietly confident way.
• One final piece of understated showmanship: when the band came back for the encore, they straggled on in a seemingly random fashion.