Underpromise vs Underpromised - What's the difference?
underpromise | underpromised |
To promise less than one expects to do.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 4, author=Richard Sandomir, title=Fixing a Broken Dream One Night at a Time, work=New York Times
, passage=“He’s wise not to overpromise, but to underpromise and overdeliver,” said Dave Checketts, a former president of the Knicks and then Madison Square Garden who left in 2001 after a power struggle with James L. Dolan, the chairman of the Garden. }} (underpromise)
To promise less than one expects to do.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 4, author=Richard Sandomir, title=Fixing a Broken Dream One Night at a Time, work=New York Times
, passage=“He’s wise not to overpromise, but to underpromise and overdeliver,” said Dave Checketts, a former president of the Knicks and then Madison Square Garden who left in 2001 after a power struggle with James L. Dolan, the chairman of the Garden. }}
As verbs the difference between underpromise and underpromised
is that underpromise is to promise less than one expects to do while underpromised is past tense of underpromise.underpromise
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