downplaying
downplay
play down
underplay
cropping
background
bad sign
disappointment
indirection
confounding
dashing hopes
extenuate
mitigate
obscurantism
palliate
mincing
obscurant
underuse
de-emphasize
belittle
minimize
skewering
derogate
denigrate
fly in the ointment
notoriety
ill fame
sugar
negativation
complicit
detraction
derating
undertone
subterfuge
deflexibilization
exercise
consequence
underrecognize
blind
pugnaciousness
know better
subordinate
downtone
dereferencing
minimise
monkey business
dereference
understate
disturbance
vegetive
cold shoulder
circumstantial
two wrongs make a right
wrongdom
smokescreen
stifling
some mothers do have them
ackamarackus
smoke screen
undoing
vegetative
underact
fibbing
knavery
dirty pool
hocus-pocus
scrag end
decomplementation
slighting
paltering
duplicitous
flaunting
unperk
disquieting
more is more
intercontradiction
ebbing
dubious
excuse
sparsing
loosen someone's tongue
disregard
potter
theater
carry on
pollute
derogation
think nothing of
gratification
desensitize
decompilation
lamage
belittlement
disinterest
derank

English words for 'The act by which something is downplayed, or made to seem less important.'

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