Downplay in a sentence as a verb

And when it comes to bullying, most teenagers downplay to avoid being though of as a snitch.

It's the first thing you notice when you pick one up. Not surprising that Apple is trying to downplay this difference.

For example, we like to downplay how much women really give up by being the child-bearers.

I wonder why they call it Nest acquistion, to downplay privacy concerns?

It will also have to drastically downplay the importance of footwork.

But it really did make it easy to downplay the whole thing by saying "If it was so important why didn't Google get involved?

As an alcoholic, I have a tendency to downplay addictions that aren't to dangerous substances.

People who want to downplay the importance of class delineation like to point to the extraordinary people who rise from poverty into success.

This is still very impressive - I don't mean to downplay the technical achievement, but I'm just trying to get a realistic sense of where the technology is at.

When the unibody 13" MacBooks were released, she was dead-set on getting it. However, she assumed that the sales reps would try to up-sell her to a 17" MacBook Pro, so she tried to downplay her typical computer usage as much as possible.

But at the same time to an extent they are not diminished in importance, but rather culture has shifted to downplay the uncomfortable truths at the root of these elements.

There is a deliberate effort in academia to downplay, or in the case of this piece, distort and even place blame on the Protestant Christian educational movements of early America.

Efforts to downplay this vulnerability are directly damaging to the Internet's security and, given that you are a single-issue poster, suspicious.

" posts and articles comes around, you seem to show up with at least one or two comments along the lines of, "Hey, I use PayPal, it's never been a problem for me, it shouldn't be a problem for you either"; shortly after the Fukushima incident, you leveraged your intimate knowledge of Japanese culture to powerfully downplay the seriousness of the matter, except that it turned out that you were wrong, and the facilities did have problems before the incident, and it did turn into a serious disaster.

Downplay definitions

verb

represent as less significant or important

See also: understate minimize minimise

verb

understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"

See also: background