What are some opposite words for play up?
Antonyms for play upplay up
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foreground, highlight, spotlight, play upverb
move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
"The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
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background, play down, downplaySynonyms:
cozy up, sidle up, suck up, highlight, cotton up, spotlight, foreground, shine upcozy up, cotton up, shine up, play up, sidle up, suck upverb
ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior
"She is playing up to the chairman"
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play down, downplay, backgroundSynonyms:
soak up, bootlick, sop up, cozy up, highlight, toady, draw, cotton up, shine up, absorb, take in, sidle up, kowtow, spotlight, suck, imbibe, truckle, take up, suck up, foreground, fawn, kotow
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It used to irritate me the way certain narratives are spread and the way words are twisted, I had to just disengage from it, when I came into the game, it used to happen and I'd just laugh it off and play up to it and do my thing. Then it just kept up going on, on, and on. It got a little much and I reacted to disrespect. But no more.
It's amazing, we obviously look at this as one of the biggest tournaments we play, up against the majors.
It’s important to play up the racial hatred as the genesis of this crime so people are reminded what hate can really do in our society, people need to understand that hate is more than screaming at people and racial slurs. It kills.
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.
The report in Korean has characterized Kim's climb up to Mt Paektu on horseback as a new 'myth', and that, together with the images of him on a white horse, appear to have been designed to create maximum propaganda effect, which I believe media will play up in the days to come.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1583 | background | |
#69070 | downplay |
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