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Example sentences for "underrating"

Lexicographically close words:
underpay; underpinning; underplot; underrate; underrated; underrun; underrunning; underscore; underscored; underscores
  1. One reason for your underrating us may be that our receptive powers only are in constant use, and we have little power of expression.

  2. But Napoleon once more made the mistake of underrating both the numbers and the abilities of his foes.

  3. You will not accuse me of underrating your accomplishments.

  4. That seems to me the insurmountable calamity, though there is an ignorant affectation in many people of underrating what they call bodily suffering.

  5. We both hope that the coming year may continue to you all the family joys which must make the core of your happiness, without underrating golf and good contributors to "Maga.

  6. His judgment was not warped by latent female jealousies, and he avoided the error into which the housekeeper had fallen, self-deluded--the error of underrating the impression on Noel Vanstone that Magdalen had produced.

  7. First, whether the said pressure (without at all underrating your influence over him) may not squeeze for a long time before it squeezes money out of Mr. N.

  8. The wine being old, mild and delicate in flavor, he classed it in the same category with small beer, far underrating its beguiling potency.

  9. They have too often shown their patriotism by murdering their generals, underrating their enemies and slighting their friends.

  10. Mrs. Bazalgette could not be sincere in underrating him.

  11. Overrating the power of governments, and underrating Nature's, he married the Mississippi shares (at forty times their value) to his banknotes by edict.

  12. Where the alternative possibilities are very numerous, we are apt not to make due allowance for the number, sometimes overrating it, sometimes underrating it.

  13. There is a great mistake prevalent in the minds of most English people, and that is, their habit of underrating the Kaffir as a foe.

  14. Almost all the disasters that we have met with in Africa have been caused by underrating the enemy, or fancying security where there was danger.

  15. This peril leads to another, that of underrating the evil of sin, the extent of it, the demerit of it.

  16. From the habit of underrating the divine law and justice, the extent and demerit of human disobedience, men easily slide into the habit of underestimating the grace which has provided an atonement for sin.

  17. One navy was certainly as deceptive as another, as far as underrating went.

  18. Yes, indeed," replied Sylla, "we fell into what you military men call the weakness of underrating our opponent.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underrating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    depreciation; disparagement; disparaging