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- verb Present participle of
underrate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value
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Examples
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Please stop underrating your viewing audience by forcing this ignorant scatterbrain on us.
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But underrating a vibrant nation of sixty percent youth had been a capital sin.
Sobia Ali: Voices of Pakistan: Why do Pakistanis Have Such Mixed Opinions About America? Sobia Ali 2011
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I have no idea of underrating these achievements; I only challenge them before the bar of the Christian outlook on life.
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Now that times are hard, they are consistently underrating the security of nation states which refuse to bow to agency orthodoxy by cutting expenditure.
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But underrating a vibrant nation of sixty percent youth had been a capital sin.
Sobia Ali: Voices of Pakistan: Why do Pakistanis Have Such Mixed Opinions About America? Sobia Ali 2011
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But I do think some people are underrating some elements of the proposed reforms, most specifically with respect to the subsidized national group plans the OPM would be arranging to offer through the exchanges.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010
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Scouts are underrating the difficulty of making the adjustment from Japan to America, culturally, and also making too much of a few small cases, he said.
The Next Phenom or Matsuzaka 2.0? Daniel Barbarisi 2011
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That can afflict investors with what Mr. Agrrawal calls "an optical bias"—for example, underrating the importance of dividends in stock returns.
Why We Can't Tell if the Market Is Half Empty or Half Full Jason Zweig 2011
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But underrating a vibrant nation of sixty percent youth had been a capital sin.
Sobia Ali: Voices of Pakistan: Why do Pakistanis Have Such Mixed Opinions About America? Sobia Ali 2011
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Nothing would make me happier than to say in six months that I was underrating him on July 4th, 2010, and to eat a big helping of crow.
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