0 to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is:
The government has been trying to downplay the crisis.
1 to make something seem less important or not as bad as it really is:
Traditionally researchers have tried to downplay external factors and have tried to argue that internal factors alone are responsible for the facts.
She downplays the administrative practice, in recognizing chiefs, of supporting one ruling-family faction against another on political grounds.
Such a cultural orientation would downplay traditional notions of self-determination and the work ethic.
In fact, both governments and the newspapers they influenced had an interest in downplaying official involvement in the press.
Labor officials and others consistently downplayed the wider political significance of the employer-mandate idea.
These authors suggest that a goal of ethics commentators is to emphasize the facts, especially those that have been omitted or downplayed.
Rather than either emphasising or downplaying the role of formal worker organisations, the authors describe a mixed history.
While not denying that they had confined their wives, they downplayed its significance.
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