play down
underplay
undertone
sugar
dwarfing
downplay
ruin
downplaying
lay aside
unperk
pollute
put lipstick on a pig
more is more
understate
minimise
minimize
subordinate
shortsightedly
pale into insignificance
belittlement
background
make a federal case out of something
settle for
palliate
belittle
mitigate
underrecognize
extenuate
disprefer
smallify
hold against
prosify
rise above
put by
embellish
scrag end
equivocate
lighten
unpretty
fog
magnification
soften up
exaggeration
overstatement
make peace
pale in comparison
smarten up
scrag-end
unacceptably
put aside
trifle
put the cart before the horse
somethingburger
pretentiously
diminished
less is a bore
dedramatize
draw a veil over
magnify
big deal
deactualization
underconform
camp it up
nonsense
play fast and loose
potter
cool
fly in the ointment
coy
befog
delegitimize
secondary
secondarily
fashy
derank
circumstantial
desimplify
yoink
dubious
detrench
pretentious
something and nothing
kick up dust
joke
triviality
Disneyfy
dampen
de-emphasize
deaden
damp
reject
castrate
on the debit side
extenuating
varnish
degeneralize
subcritical

English words for 'To make or attempt to make something seem less important, likely, or obvious.'

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