I've an idea-he hesitated-an idea that there was no exaggeration in that story she told-an idea that if anything she underplayed it.
"The Metal Monster"
A. Merritt
This was the standard opening stage of a Tribunal interrogation, an underplayed exchange of questions and answers.
"Oneness"
James H. Schmitz
On the contrary, he rather underplayed his part, his eye and voice being for, a moment so absent as to surprise his host.
"The New Rector"
Stanley J. Weyman