How to use playdown in a sentence
And Western capitals sought to play down the Russian invasion.
He goes to Houston for a lot of money and he gets tired and doesn't want to play down there because they never score any runs.
You could try desperately to play down the fascination and keep your prodigious private...private.
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Rosen says that I “play down the magnitude of the Palestinian demand for a right of return” for refugees.
You will find there A fitter hand than mine, to reach her frets, And play down diddle to her.Petro.
Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) | Francis BeaumontNobody has lived in it for years and years but I used to play down here when I was a little girl and had time to play.
The Comings of Cousin Ann | Emma Speed SampsonIt won't do, with your political record, to try to play down these stories of a gigantic criminal conspiracy.
Time Crime | H. Beam PiperThe mere suggestion of the thing is sufficient to cause a cold shudder to play down the spinal column of John Bull.
East of Suez | Frederic Courtland PenfieldIt pointed up the very thing he was trying to play down, and raised a general laugh.
The Edge of the Knife | Henry Beam Piper
British Dictionary definitions for play down
(tr, adverb) to make little or light of; minimize the importance of
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Other Idioms and Phrases with playdown
Make little of, minimize the importance of, as in A skillful salesman plays down the drawbacks of the product and emphasizes its good features. [First half of 1900s]
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