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Example sentences for "underestimated"

Lexicographically close words:
underdrain; undered; underemployed; underemployment; underestimate; underestimating; underestimation; underfed; underfeeding; underfoot
  1. Men in high places underestimated Lincoln, or did not estimate him at all.

  2. And it may be said here that, if Mr. Hopper underestimated him, certainly he underestimated Mr. Hopper.

  3. The significance of the unconscious and the involuntary is apt to be underestimated or disregarded.

  4. Columbus believed the world to be a sphere; he underestimated its size; he overestimated the size of the Asiatic continent.

  5. He believed the world to be a sphere," says Helps; "he underestimated its size; he overestimated the size of the Asiatic continent.

  6. Christianity, to begin with, sadly underestimated physical values in its overinsistence upon spiritual values.

  7. We could not afford, it was thought, to offer less than Austria, and we probably underestimated Italy's fears and difficulties.

  8. Lyons, in this letter, correctly stated the rising determination of the North to restore the Union, but underestimated the rapid growth of an equal determination against a restoration with slavery.

  9. It would appear, then, that Seward much underestimated the acuteness of Russell and Thouvenel, and expected them "to walk into a trap.

  10. If the latter is true, then our data for captive animals underestimated the actual energy cost of maintenance metabolism for Procyon lotor in the wild.

  11. Our earlier tests of the efficiency of our system indicated that although we underestimated actual oxygen consumption of the ethanol lamp, we did so with a fair degree of precision; probably because flow rates were closely controlled.

  12. Corporal Thalman has either underestimated the distance from the point of his capture to the igloos, or else we’re traveling in the wrong direction.

  13. The boys had underestimated the trail-craft of the white Eskimo and his men.

  14. I had predicted that Raney's personality would impress itself upon Oxford, though I never underestimated the difficulty in a place so given over to particularism and fierce local jealousies.

  15. Seemingly I had underestimated the havoc wrought in the girl's nerves by her years of crude excitement.

  16. Mr. Crewe by no means underestimated this claim upon the community, and he had of late been declaring that he was no summer resident.

  17. They underestimated the power of the Katsuragi family.

  18. But in one important respect Philip had underestimated his enemy: he had counted upon a divided country.

  19. His modesty amounted to a defect, in that he always underestimated his personal influence.

  20. Later on he discovered himself seriously interested in the blue-eyed Kentuckian, whom he had really underestimated in his preconceived opinions of her.

  21. Lincoln was elected cook, a distinction he never underestimated for a moment.

  22. Antony underestimated the capacities of this rather sickly youth and continued to refuse him recognition, but was soon made aware of his mistake.

  23. But he had underestimated the strength of the Parthians and the difficulties of desert warfare.

  24. Apart from the fact that the negotiations on the Lusitania question had been allowed to hang fire for about six weeks I believe that in this case we have again underestimated the significance of hostile public opinion in America.

  25. The power of the Union was therefore underestimated by us, and the high-spirited utterances of American youthful strength were more disapproved of than was necessary, because they were interpreted as mere "bluff" and arrogance.

  26. The American Government, we thought, still underestimated the dangers of the situation, and failed to take any measures of precaution.

  27. She felt that Mrs. Faithful underestimated her man of the family.

  28. I think many of us have underestimated the contribution of this interpreting system to this Trial.

  29. Contentment, whatever her lot, was an attribute of Marmee; she underestimated herself always.

  30. His conversation is sublime; yet when I see how he is underestimated by cultivated people, I fancy none but I have heard him talk.

  31. Why, Chester will just go crazy if only we can down the boasting team that has never tasted defeat this season up to that fluke game, when they underestimated the fighting qualities of the rejuvenated Chester nine.

  32. For one, I've underestimated the Harmony boys.

  33. The report said: American assistance, which was underestimated in Germany because they doubted its value and its opportunity worries the German High Command more than it will admit.

  34. But, like Russell, she underestimated Mormon.

  35. In this, unfortunately, they underestimated the depths of the man's obsession, and gave him credit for a sense of moderation which he did not possess.

  36. His only mistake to date had been that he underestimated the greatness of God!


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