Sentence examples for Serious understatement from inspiring English sources
That proved a serious understatement.
To call it contentious would be a serious understatement.
To say that he had Cage's canny music under his fingers is a serious understatement.
To say City won with something to spare would be to risk serious understatement.
To say that Lee was vilified for her warnings is a serious understatement.
To call this "paper thin" would be a serious understatement, it's barely even there.
Update 1045: I wrote above that the Treasury has released a lot of data and that it's initially hard to assess its significance; it turns out that both are serious understatements.
What Gibson designates an "attack," Pat Kiernan on NY1 deems "a dramatic development" and predicts, with characteristic understatement, "a serious evacuation".
The two met through OK Cupid, the online dating service, where Lawson had written "somewhat serious" under "religion," a huge understatement.
Facing the opposition of 20% of the shareholders is normally considered, in this world of (public) understatement, to be a serious rebuke.
The move was described by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron - in what yet may prove an understatement - as "a serious step in the wrong direction".
