understates in English

verb

1

describe or represent (something) as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.

the press has understated the extent of the problem

synonyms: play down, downplay, underrate, underplay, de-emphasize, trivialize, minimize, diminish, downgrade, brush aside, gloss over, put it mildly, soft-pedal, sell short

verb

• play down, downplay, underrate, underplay, de-emphasize, trivialize, minimize, diminish, downgrade, brush aside, gloss over, put it mildly, soft-pedal, sell short
• downplay, minimize

Use "understates" in a sentence

1. She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer.

2. As all NIA members know, the CPI understates inflation through geometric weighting and hedonics.

3. 10 In this case,[www.Sentencedict.com] the overstatement of bad debt expense unjustifiably understates the present year's net income .

4. Its up to us to choose With regard to truth, then, the intermediate is a truthful sort of person and the mean may be called truthfulness, while the pretence which exaggerates is Boastfulness and the person characterized by it a boaster, and that which understates is mock modesty and the person characterized by it as mock-modest.