To-day there is little inclination in London or Paris to underestimate the providential importance of American intervention.
In trying to know the actor, it is otherwise; here it is folly to underestimate the physical antecedents of mental phenomena.
I do not underestimatethe influence of such thought as his.
I believe that politically they have a living value for us, and that we persistently underestimate the English contribution to freedom and justice.
The faulty execution of the original plan, which enabled the enemy to concentrate and to accumulate adequate means of resistance, and the subsequentunderestimate of the endurance of the garrison, bear the same mark.
I would not underestimate our differences, but we are moving with precision and purpose from an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation.
I do not underestimatethe difficulties that we face in this mutual effort among our close neighbors, but the free states of this hemisphere, working in close collaboration, have begun to make this alliance a living reality.
I hope that those who represent constituencies primarily agricultural will not underestimate the importance of extending like aid to the industrial third.
We are apt to underestimate the time necessary for preparation in such cases.
We should not underestimate the positive effect of even this little bit.
But this also is to underestimate the resources of capitalism and its capacity for a certain form of progress.
Much of the original seating capacity is concealed by the overgrowth of grass, so that one is likely greatly to underestimate its former size.
But you need not be afraid that I underestimate her.
It is the inability to appreciate this which breeds our civic censors, who are led by their lack of perspective to underestimate the character of the people and to foretell the ultimate failure of our experiment.
His preoccupation, too, with the problem of the a priori leads him to underestimate the part played in knowledge by the merely empirical.
For these reasons they underestimate the powers of sensibility (to which space and time belong as a priori forms), and exaggerate those of pure understanding.
But no one ought to underestimatethe value which may result for the treatment from a suggestion of a well-adapted diet.
But from such a causal point of view, we should not underestimate the manifold good which can come from the causal effect of religious and ethical ideas.
The physician is thus too easily inclined to underestimate the good which may come in the fight against disease from the ideas and emotions which form the background of the mind of the patient.
I do not wish you to suppose for a moment that I belittle, that I underestimate these evils, only we do not need anything other than the scientific and historic facts of the world in order to account for them.
I do not wish you to suppose that I misunderstand orunderestimate the work of the Christ in this direction.
But it is possible to underestimate the reality and importance of the party system as it existed down to 1847.
Only a fool would attempt to minimise or underestimate the meaning of what he saw around him.
No, he did not underestimate the Wolf, but if he had luck to-night--!
No, he did not underestimate the Wolf--only a fool, and a blinded fool, would do that.
Concerning Brown and his plans Mr. Vallandigham said: It is in vain to underestimate the man or the conspiracy.
I will presently narrate to you the whole story; it will come better from my lips than from those of Sir Gervaise, whose disposition is to wholly underestimate the merit of the action he has performed.
It is good to be modest, Sir Gervaise, and it is better to underestimate than to overrate one's own merits, but it is not well to carry the feeling to an extreme.
The reckless and the prodigal underestimate the future and barter all to gratify the moment's impulse.
The universal tendency to rhythm in motion (material or psychic) manifests itself in an overestimate or underestimate of rent and of every other factor in value.
And yet they are but detective-stories, after all; and Poe himself, never prone to underestimate what he had written, spoke of them lightly and even hinted that they had been overpraised.
George Henry Lewes, in his stimulating essays, 'On Actors and the Art of Acting,' has told us that audiences are inclined to overestimate the genius of an actor and to underestimate his trained skill.
I think you underestimate Pike's influence--" "Underestimate the devil!
Unless I underestimate him gravely he is incapable of such finesse.
Premature this might prove to be, but it seemed impossible to misunderstand the emotion under which the chief engineer was labouring or to underestimate its potential value to Lanyard.
No matter how blessed with physical and mental strength the young man may be, under these circumstances he is very apt, for the time at least, to underestimate his own strength.
Far be it from us to underestimate the value of learning.
I have entered into this discussion because there seems to be a general tendency to underestimatethe extent to which iron was employed by the Greeks and Romans.
If, however, we tend to underestimate the extent to which iron was in use among the Greeks and Romans, still more, I believe, do we tend to underrate the quantity and the quality of the steel available in those times.
Now judge for yourselves what mistaken estimate of the true world, what boundless underestimate of opposing forces, lie in the belief that those who have power can be moved to a surrender of their position through preaching and promise.
As the utopists underestimate the power of their opponents, so they overestimate their own strength, and thus become utopists as to the future.
I think you underestimate Eldridge," spoke up Hallowell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underestimate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
