Sentence examples for underrating from inspiring English sources
The word 'underrating' is correct and commonly used in written English
It means to underestimate or not give enough credit or value to something or someone. Example: Many people are underrating the impact of climate change, but it is a very real and urgent issue that needs to be addressed.
verb
Present participle of underrate
And his successors both David Cameron, the Conservative prime minister, and Labour's leader Ed Miliband are underrating that to their cost.Mr Miliband's error is most glaring, the Labour leader having abandoned the centre ground that Mr Blair took such pains to capture.
He warned against "underrating the enemy's strength" and said that nearly 200 Russian soldiers had been killed in action which is probably an underestimate.
Although criticized for this interpretation of peasant life, as well as for underrating the impersonal and economic values and relations that may obtain in folk societies, Redfield's construction of the ideal folk culture continues to be the authoritative ideal type.
Also worth a look along these lines are the minutes from the Federal Reserve's 2008 meetings, particularly those in the spring and the summer, which show that the Fed was paying as much, if not more, attention to the risk of inflation as it was to the recession; it seems pretty clear that even before September the Fed was underrating the severity of the downturn.
In "Moneyball," the film based on Michael Lewis's baseball book, Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, who revolutionized baseball through sophisticated statistical analysis: it turned out that managers were routinely overrating or underrating players.
The other truly entertaining pre-game activity will be listening to Mike Francesa on WFAN each afternoon, abusing his listeners for accusing him of underrating the Jets, which, to be fair, he has.
I think I have always underrated Myerson – this novel seems to me a great achievement.
This could have something to do with the fact that it came in the latter half of Miller's career, when he was underrated in the US (though celebrated here).
"I feel that we have moved forward and people think always it's about buying but it's as well about cohesion, and cohesion is a very important factor that is a bit underrated usually by people.
It underrates the energy that post-colonial governments have put into keeping these laws on the books, or adding to them.
And the power of charisma should not be underrated, especially in the context of the American presidency which is, constitutionally, quite a weak office.
