1. understated
Her dress has an understated charm.
The carpeting, wall hangings, and pillar sculpts were elegant but more understated than the decor she'd seen in other senators' offices.
Angličtina slovo „zaniżać„(understated) se zobrazí v sadách:
biznesowy angielski2. to depress
3. lower
In 1880, the Irish boycotted a landowner, Captain C.C. Boycott, for failing to lower rents.
His lower lip trembled
The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing part, the latter the executive part.
Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.
The ownership of women begins in the lower barbarian stages of culture, apparently with the seizure of female captives. The original reason for the seizure and appropriation of women seems to have been their usefulness as trophies.
However, compared to that in cities, rural use of online news, search engines, online shopping, online banking, online stocks and so on is much lower.
He and his wife both work and his salary is lower than hers, so no wonder he is a hen-pecked husband.
It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher).
A nearby town even considered becoming part of the neighboring state. They really just wanted lower taxes.
Far from refuting the thesis that race is to blame for lower IQ score, Lynn's data actually supports it.
Subjugation of the lower classes is important to our covert centralization of resources.
If a women walks on a public street exposing her lower body, it's public indecency. If she walks while exposing her upper body, then it's a violation of article 20(1) of the minor offenses act.
If Cleopatra's nose had been a little lower, the history of the world might have been different.
When we take the wind-chill factor into account, the temperature must have been lower than thirty degrees below zero centigrade.
The musical instruments and parts are completely professional quality! And yet the prices are lower than anywhere!
Angličtina slovo „zaniżać„(lower) se zobrazí v sadách:
4. Coming of age4. to downplay
He tried to downplay the problem.
And the log chart tends to downplay just how many more confirmed cases there are in the US than in the other countries.
5. undersold
6. underestimate
Don't underestimate me.
She tends to underestimate her own ability.
Tom should be careful not to underestimate Mary.
research shows we consistently underestimate our mental powers
We underestimated how long it would take to get there.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
Don't underestimate me. I might look cute and innocent but if it comes down to it, I'll bitch-slap you to death.
That can lead us to underestimate the significance of this all, however.
Don't underestimate the difficulties of getting both parties to the conference table.
He underestimated the cost of the party.
The university underestimated the amount of time needed to install the new computer system.
The earthquake that razed the city showed that one should never underestimate the power of nature.
I underestimated his abilities as a financial controller.
Never underestimate the power of a single act of kindness". Nigdy nie oceniaj zbyt nisko mocy jednego dobrego uczynku.
The American anthropologist Margaret Mead once said that one should never underestimate what a small group of dedicated people can accomplish.