Antonyms for downplay
ˈdaʊnˌpleɪdown·play

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1. understate, minimize, minimise, downplayverb

   represent as less significant or important

   Synonyms:
   belittle, denigrate, play down, understate, minimise, minimize, derogate, background

2. background, play down, downplayverb

   understate the importance or quality of

   "he played down his royal ancestry"

   Synonyms:
   minimize, play down, background, understate, minimise

How to use downplay in a sentence?

1. Christopher Dearborn:

   They will continue to downplay his role and play up the role of his older brother, trying to create the impression that his older brother was the puppeteer and he was the puppet, i don't think they have any hope of prevailing in the guilt phase, but their strategy will continue to be to gain some credibility with the jury by conceding what they had to concede and hoping to try to humanize the kid a little bit so that will carry over into the second phase of the trial.

2. Justin Bamberg:

   It is really infuriating, to be honest. There's no real way to downplay it like, people don't know the depth of this thing.

3. Michelle Simmons:

   I don't want to downplay just how serious of a situation we all find ourselves in, i understand the hesitancy and the reluctance of folks who do this work. But I will say that we felt in Charleston County that Charleston County was just that important for us to position ourselves from our operations and facilities and academics to be prepared, to serve families. And so that's what we did.

4. Douglas Feith:

   The Obama administration has tended to downplay, to belittle, the ideological importance of the problem, you can't explain away the terrorism problem as a matter of economic and political frustration.

5. Morgan Wallen:

   There's no reason to downplay what I did. It matters and please know I'm carefully choosing my next steps in repair.

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