Underweening

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

Undervaluation..

Definitions by Sense

1. Undervaluation.
2. Extremely modest.
3. present participle and gerund of underween

Example Sentences

Here is forbidden an over or underweening of the good things in our selves,

But the greatest underweening of this life is to undervalue that, unto which this is but Exordial or a Passage leading unto it.

But when this same, very likable but nebbishy comedian pretends to be that supremely ambitious youth, Phaethon, the tragic ride in the chariot of the Sun-God is reduced from overweening to underweening.

It is quite possible Challis may think you have an overweening estimate of foreigners and that a particular foreigner may think that your estimate of him is underweening as compared with his own.

Is it possible to be underweening? Too unassuming in one's opinions?

In fact, if anything, it is an underweening bureaucracy.

This newspaper must not become a platform for the overweening to smother the opinions of the underweening.

'That underweening manner', Shrapnel commented, conveyed 'the reverse of modesty'.

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• more underweening
• most underweening

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