underrate
IPA: ʌndɝrˈeɪt
noun
- A price less than the value.
verb
- (transitive) to underestimate; to make too low a rate or estimate
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Examples of "underrate" in Sentences
- But we should not underrate the hostility that "Phil the Greek" had to cope with.
- If you don't like a writer, bad writing will let you imagine the worst and you underrate the thinking.
- February 16th, 2010 at 2: 16 pm and reporters underrate the importance of the other committee members in determining Fed policy.
- The epigraph to the book The Happiness Project is a quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson: "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
- You underrate the firstlings of the heart, the rose and white blossoming, the call upon the senses and the readiness to respond and to fulfil, to give and to take, to be and make happy — the great pride and utter abandon which is young love.
- First, Michael Ratcliffe in The Times (London): Most British reviews have taken Mr. Vidal with total seriousness, up to a point, but to conclude, as some have, that Myra Breckinridge is a novel about sex as the source of all ultimate power is greatly to underrate its subtlety.
- Thousands of misleading mortgages to easily fooled people hopeful at the chance to own a home WITH Wall Street gambling on them, against them AND improperly insuring them after paying ratings companies to underrate the risk to goose the underwriting = what happened and why we're suffering. haren
- This lies at the intersection of the fact that reporters underrate the importance of the economy in determining political outcomes, reporters underrate the importance of the Fed in determining economic outcomes, and reporters underrate the importance of the other committee members in determining Fed policy.
- Thousands of misleading mortgages to easily fooled people hopeful at the chance to own a home WITHOUT Wall Street gambling on them, against them AND improperly insuring them after paying ratings companies to underrate the risk to goose the underwriting = thousands of foreclosures, and the banks, for the most part, go on their merry way owning a lot more property than they previously did.
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