Underrates

The teachers unions protest that they've been unfairly maligned, the victim of a hit campaign that vastly overstated the quality of the solutions proposed by the Michelle Rhees of the world and vastly underrates how much teachers unions have done to professionalize teaching. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I think this is largely right, but I agree with Ezra Klein that it vastly underrates the structural issues at work: Governors have to make their state work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His critics counter that he underrates the power of networks and technology. ❋ Adam Elkus (2010)

Rosamund Bartlett, Tolstoy's latest biographer, admires his achievements as a novelist, but she underrates them. ❋ Gary Saul Morson (2011)

Still, I think this underrates her achievements as HLSdean. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The capitalist ethos underrates the economic value and social utility of domestic labor in family life, particularly during the early years of childhood; the prevailing expectations of gender feminists place too high a value on the social and psychological satisfactions of work; and the typical package of family-friendly benefits delivered by the state creates incentives that essentially reinforce the devaluations of motherhood prompted by the capitalist ethos and feminist expectations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cashill underrates the literary quality of other things Obama has written. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This, I feel, underrates the seductive appeal of the habitual charmer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The “academic culture” defines women as less competent to engage in science and underrates their worth as scientists and scholars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(I do believe he vastly underrates Barack Obama, however.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not only does he think that the conventional wisdom underrates his chances, but he sees upside for a lot of Republicans as voters, at last, start to tune in to the 2008 campaign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He micro manages, criticizes and underrates everything I do. ❋ Unknown (2008)

More substantively, Mr. Pollack seriously underrates the specifically Islamic contribution to the region's woes. ❋ Unknown (2008)