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understatement
CIDE DICTIONARY
understatement, n.
The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
understatement
abstractionism, coloring, deformation, distortion, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring, falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perversion, quietness, restrainedness, restraint, simplicity, slanting, subduedness, twisting, unobtrusivenessFor further exploring for "understatement" in Webster Dictionary Online