Synonyms for downplay
ˈdaʊnˌpleɪdown·play

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1. understate, minimize, minimise, downplayverb

   represent as less significant or important

   Synonyms:
   belittle, denigrate, play down, understate, minimise, minimize, derogate, background

2. background, play down, downplayverb

   understate the importance or quality of

   "he played down his royal ancestry"

   Synonyms:
   minimize, play down, background, understate, minimise

Matched Categories

1. • Emphasize
   • Inform

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1. List of paraphrases for "downplay":

   minimize, trivialise, de-emphasize, minimise, underestimate

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1. Steve Shaw.WHOU:

   While it's wrong that it happened, I'm going to ask each of you to help us shift the focus back on the excellence we see every day in our students, if you've shared the video post, I'm hoping you will take it down, not to downplay the incident, but to better help all of our students move on to the important work and events in their lives.

2. Jason Chaffetz:

   Fox News is disgusting for her to downplay Fox News, and I think the American people knew Fox News. She did nothing about Fox News at the time, and this tragedy was entirely preventable, except her State Department was inept in protecting Americans in Benghazi, i ’m sure she ca n’t even look in the mirror and face the fact that, on her watch, they lost four Americans, and it’s disgusting she ca n’t live up to it, even today.

3. Michelle Simmons:

   I don't want to downplay just how serious of a situation we all find ourselves in, i understand the hesitancy and the reluctance of folks who do this work. But I will say that we felt in Charleston County that Charleston County was just that important for us to position ourselves from our operations and facilities and academics to be prepared, to serve families. And so that's what we did.

4. Roberto Perli:

   Powell will do what he can to try to downplay the dots especially if they don't show what the markets want them to show, he will have a tough time.

5. Fabrice Bregier:

   My mistake was perhaps to downplay a bit at the beginning of the show.