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As for the camp factor, many massive understatements in the script will trigger appreciative howls of laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

He still brakes for bad puns and double-negative understatements, but he avoids the kind of under-metabolized research that sometimes alienated his early readers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

It was one of the greatest understatements of all time.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

“He’ll tell you he ‘plays a little keyboard,’ but that is one of the most tremendous understatements ever.

From Washington Times • Sep. 26, 2016

The average of these averages is 101 per cent. for the entire club, and is probably within the truth; for most of the individual figures which go to make up this result are understatements, not overstatements.

From How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Fisher, Irving