Underassured

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Insufficiently assured.

    "Agents, according to a critical account written in the 1930s, had 'convinced themselves, by long years of self-persuasion, that it is little short of immoral for a man to be underassured', and they tended to view lapses not as a sign of a real inability to pay, but as an indicator of the financial recidivism of the masses."

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"Agents, according to a critical account written in the 1930s, had 'convinced themselves, by long years of self-persuasion, that it is little short of immoral for a man to be underassured', and they tended to view lapses not as a sign of a real inability to pay, but as an indicator of the financial recidivism of the masses."

Etymology

From under- + assured.

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