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• ADVERB-ADVERB ADVERB-VERB NOUN upshot evergreen whereabouts downpour ADJECTIVE offhand overdue never-never income ADVERB overboard outright henceforth overmatched VERB outlaw outsmart fast underplay forward VERB-NOUN VERB-ADJ. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
• They are a serious tactical challenge but one that -- I mean, I don't anticipate the Taliban suddenly setting up a government in Kabul any time soon, which is not to underplay the fact that they showed some resilience and they're obviously planning a pretty big offensive in the spring. —  CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2007
• KLEIN: Well, that's because, you know, we overplay gaffes and we underplay reforms. —  CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2009
• I suggest you underplay, or you could have mass hysteria on top of your other problems. " —  The Stars Are Also Fire
• NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB VERB NOUN spaceship homesick flashback godsend ADJECTIVE madman bittersweet blackout freeload ADVERB upshot evergreen henceforth underplay VERB scarecrow fail-safe tumbledown hearsay Independent morphemes may marry in such ingenious ways that the part of speech of a compound may be different from that of either of its components, as in the last two entries above: tumble (verb) + down (adverb) = tumbledown (adjective); hear (verb) + say (verb) = hearsay (noun or adjective). —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3

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