Downplay

Not to downplay the situation, but could he be joking?

If you try to downplay this, I'm going to walk away.

She often likes to downplay her achievements.

Laura may be a prodigy, but she is known to downplay her failures.

You need to acknowledge the trauma. Don't downplay what happened to you.

I'm not trying to downplay this at all.

Boris tried to downplay the situation as much as possible.

Certain Western perspectives tend to overlook or downplay the rich diversity of cultures, traditions, and perspectives from other regions, inadvertently reinforcing the notion of a Western-centric worldview.

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

[Milo] Yiannopoulos, whose own career as a far-right pundit imploded in 2017 after remarks he had made downplaying the seriousness of pedophilia surfaced, claims he has more damaging videos to release about [Ali] Alexander and [Nick] Fuentes.