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Example sentences for "underestimation"

Lexicographically close words:
underemployed; underemployment; underestimate; underestimated; underestimating; underfed; underfeeding; underfoot; underfur; undergarment
  1. These comments should not be construed as an underestimation of the usefulness of the simple intellectual test as a preliminary precaution in engaging employees or in detecting extreme departures from the mode or average.

  2. They would, in other words, express smaller degrees of overestimation and underestimation than were really present in the consciousness of our observers.

  3. By this unlooked-for appeal Hodder was not only disarmed, but smitten with self-reproach at the thought of his former misjudgment and underestimation of the man in whose presence he sat.

  4. Germany's second great blunder was an arrogant underestimation of a self-reliant people of English culture and traditions.

  5. He holds further that the overestimation of this distance along the parallels (the two vertical lines) and the underestimation of the oblique distance across the interval are sufficient to provide a full explanation of the illusion.

  6. The explanation of this illusion on the simple basis of underestimation or overestimation of angles is open to criticism.

  7. The underestimation of the enemy had indeed been costly.

  8. They had deemed it too difficult for an attacking force to climb, but this underestimation of the courage of the enemy cost them dearly.

  9. It was an underestimation so great that in the light of developments it will some day prove ridiculous.

  10. Which, all things considered, was an underestimation of what ensued hard on the heels of his announcement.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underestimation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.