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AleksandrR [38]
2 years ago
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Which sentence most clearly contains understatement?

English
1 answer:
lord [1]2 years ago
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A sentence which most clearly contains understatement is: C. the judge looked over the young, pimply faced lawyer and said, "Overruled."

<h3>What is an understatement?</h3>

An understatement can be defined as a type of statement which is used to describe a thing as less important, less valuable, or having much less of a certain quality than it actually does.

In this context, we can infer and logically deduce that "the judge looked over the young, pimply faced lawyer and said, "Overruled." is a sentence which most clearly contains understatement.

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