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Downplay

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential. transitive

    "He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey."

  2. 2
    understate the importance or quality of wordnet
  3. 3
    represent as less significant or important wordnet

Etymology

Synthetic form of the phrase play down. By surface analysis, down- + play.

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