misunderstatement

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An understatement made by mistake or that is so extremely understated as to be misleading.
    — To describe it as naïve would be a flagrant misunderstatement, but its sole purpose is to get laughs, and anyone who doubts its ability to do this has only to be reminded that for eighteen years now, day in and day out, " Aaron Slick " has averaged better than three productions every day.

词形变化

misunderstatements plural

词源

From mis- + understatement.
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