Not to downplay the situation, but could he be joking?
Source: tatoeba (8680933)
Downplay
Synonyms for "downplay" (76 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- قَلَّلَ verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Bulgarian
1 entries- омаловажавам verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Catalan
2 entries- empetitir verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- minimitzar verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 淡化 verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Czech
1 entries- bagatelizovat verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Dutch
3 entries- bagatelliseren verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- geringschatten verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- minimaliseren verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Finnish
2 entries- bagatellisoida verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- vähätellä verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
French
1 entries- minimiser verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
German
4 entries- bagatellisieren verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- herunterspielen verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- kleinreden verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- verharmlosen verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Hebrew
2 entries- גִמֵּד verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- הִצְנִיעַ verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Italian
2 entries- minimizzare verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- sminuire verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Japanese
1 entries- 矮小化する verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Macedonian
1 entries- омало́важи verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Polish
4 entries- bagatelizować verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- bimbać verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- lekceważyć verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- zbagatelizować verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Portuguese
1 entries- minimizar verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Russian
1 entries- преуменьша́ть verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Spanish
4 entries- menospreciar verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- minimizar verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- quitar hierro verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- quitar importancia verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Ukrainian
2 entries- приме́ншити verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- приме́ншувати verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Welsh
2 entries- bychanu verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
- lleihau verb (to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
If you try to downplay this, I'm going to walk away.
Source: tatoeba (8680935)
She often likes to downplay her achievements.
Source: tatoeba (8680938)
Laura may be a prodigy, but she is known to downplay her failures.
Source: tatoeba (8680942)
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