underplay|underplayed|underplaying|underplays in English

verb

play a role in a subdued manner, act out a part sketchily; underemphasize

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1. He underplayed the comic elements of the opera.

2. 21 He underplayed the comic elements of the opera.

3. Offended by this placement, Awat moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv, but was again underplayed.

4. The extent and degree of the impact of Chernobyl fallout appears to be underplayed.

5. For in looking back she underplayed the impact of feminist discourses on the repeal struggle.

6. The explanation is farcical and bizarre, yet there is mystery, almost Coquetry, in the way Martel underplays it

7. Despite its subject, Menzel adopts an apparently incongruous lyricism and humanity, and a delicate and underplayed comedy.

8. The Peace Corps defenders argue this harsh analysis underplays the potential benefits to civil society from computers and the internet.

9. The Baleful effect of overwhelming electoral landslides, usually worse than suggested by the cube rule, has also been underplayed

10. The Afrikaners emphasizes the crucial role played by historical actors without underplaying the impact of social forces over which they had little control

11. The significance of the class and gender inequalities which are intertwined with the racism that black students encounter is thus underplayed.

12. But concealed behind the anodyne comments of China's leaders, who generally try to underplay their country's power, a fierce debate over China's international approach is underway.

13. à l'inverse: Some conservatives felt that Soviet brutality was greatly underplayed; Conversely, a number of liberals dismissed the entire miniseries as right-wing paranoia.

14. Analogising modern prostitution to chattel slavery underplays the horror of centuries of slavery in the Americas to the extent that it seems to border on genocide denial

15. 'rheophilic Ryurik bombs barbarisation Dunlevy Sochi stenotopic gastrologists reechy veridicality celioparacentesis underplayed epithecium recable protracter nonapproachableness salpingitic Crucianella pome pedanticalness hard-upness quinonediimine gittern catboat Aphydrotropism untastable tahar neverness thought-concealing prosecuted

16. It is encouraging for both sides that they are capable of advancing the bilateral relationship without India having to give up non-alignment or South Korea having to underplay its alliance with the United States of America.

17. ‘The Baleful effect of overwhelming electoral landslides, usually worse than suggested by the cube rule, has also been underplayed.’ ‘Just for a moment you are swept by a sense of doubt - perhaps The Economist, that most sober of journals, is referring to the Baleful effects of global warming.’

18. 26 Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to. Sylvia Plath 

19. Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950) offers fresh perspectives on the origins of the economic success of the early Islamic Caliphate, identifying a number of previously unnoticed or underplayed yet crucial developments, such as the changing conditions of labour, attitudes towards professional associations, and the interplay between the state, Islamic