underreact
verb (used without object)
to react with less than the expected or appropriate emotion.
underreaction
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a word derived from
underreact.
Example Sentences
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“We’re seeing an underreaction, continually,” said Dr. Stanley Weiss, a Rutgers University epidemiology professor.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
Nugent drew a line between the lack of preparedness for the gyrocopter stunt and the underreaction to calls on social media to swarm Congress.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2021
That, in turn, was a product of the Fed's overreaction to economic and financial-market overheating in 2000 and underreaction to the subsequent downturn.
From Economist ● Feb. 8, 2013
Stylization has given way to a sort of desultory, sarcastic naturalism, in which the joke lies not in Carreyesque abstraction and amplification but in a kind of muttered, balloon-popping underreaction to preposterous events.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2011
"It's a lot easier to correct the errors of overreaction than the errors of underreaction," Summers said in a speech to a securities-industry group in October.
From Time Magazine Archive
