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Word "UNDERSTATEMENT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said

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Where to sign beneath declaration (5,9)
Two foreign articles on New Testament showing restraint (14)
Saying something is less than it is
Where to sign below, Bill (14)
Subject to body politic, chaps initially try playing it down (14)
Euphemism (14)
Litotes (14)
Remark that belittles the importance of something (14)
Below formal declaration, a comment, somewhat restrained? The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Dec 2021
Euphemism of sorts meant ‘entrusted'
Subject to update from bank? That’s putting it mildly The Times Cryptic 15 Nov 2021
Sign here? It's no exaggeration The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Dec 2020
Where an attestor might sign showing restraint
Restraint from junior diplomats not having succeeded, time's added
Where witness should sign? That's putting it mildly The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Sep 2017
A somewhat restrained comment below formal declaration The Telegraph Cryptic 20 Feb 2016
Turned out to cover people on condition it avoids stress The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Sep 2015
Subject to update from bank? That's putting it mildly
Traditional trait of the British.
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