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The phrase "drastic understatement" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when describing a statement or description that downplays or minimizes something significantly more severe or extreme. Example: The politician's claim that the economy was struggling was a drastic understatement. In reality, the country was facing a major recession and widespread unemployment.
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His second feature, "Moonlight," had its premiere here, and to say that it received a warm welcome would be a drastic understatement.
The practice helps to avoid tax, but it also results in a drastic understatement of the airlines' debt, according to Trevor Harris, an accounting analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
Calling Tichý a recluse would be a drastic understatement.
Considering the conservative Islamic traditions that keep many women confined to their homes and stigmatise drug abusers, 100,000 is most likely a drastic understatement.
Considering the conservative Islamic traditions that keep many women confined to their homes and stigmatize drug abusers, 100,000 is most likely a drastic understatement.
To say an apology from these culprits is in order is, to say the least, a drastic understatement, but that we cannot muster the same devastating ire and influence that brought Tiger to grovel for forgiveness is a complete failure of American sensibility and priority, akin to Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burned.
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To call it drastic would be an understatement.
To say that this has had a drastic effect on me over the past year is an understatement.
How drastic?
Drastic concessions.
Massive understatement.
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