downplaying

verb

  1. 1

    To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.

    He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is downplayed, or made to seem less important.

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