Downplaying [verb]

● Play down

● Lessen

● Soften

● Whitewash

● Devalue

● Attach little importance to

● Deemphasize

● Give little weight to

● Make light of

● Think nothing of

● Downplaying

● Minimisation

● Minimization

● Minimizing

● Overpowering

● Underestimating

● Waning

● Thus

● Thereby

● Deliberately

● Simultaneously

● Ignoring

● Emphasizing

● Highlighting

● Emphasize

● Stressing

● Emphasized

● Criticized

● Denying

● Focusing

● Accused

● Emphasizes

● Exaggerating

● Importance

● Role

● Significance

● Differences

● Others

● Aspects

● Issues

● Seriousness

● Risks

● Effects

● Issue

● Threat

● Impact

● Need

● Interest

● Favor

● Risk

● Influence

● Contributions

● Elements

● Extent

● Strategy

● Concerns

● Consequences

● Dimension

● Severity

● Element

● Dangers

● Aspect

● Weaknesses

● Conflict

● Features

● Led

● Been

● Deliberate

● Blag

● Blah

● Blahs

● Blurring

● Decline

● Decrease

● Denigration

● Disparagement

● Downgrading

● Inability

● Intensification

● Lessening

● Marginalization

● Minimize

● Mitigate

● Overemphasis

● Overestimation

● Overrepresentation

● Overvaluation

● Paper

● Privileging

● Relegation

● Sandbag

● Soft

● Underestimation

● Underplay

● Understated

● Undervaluation

● Unwillingness

● Willingness