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Present participle for to present or portray as less important or consequential
Present participle for to belittle or express disapproval of
Present participle for to keep secret or cover the truth of
Present participle for to injure a person's dignity and self-respect
Verb
▲
Present participle for to present or portray as less important or consequential
minimising
UK
minimizing
US
whitewashing
softening
lessening
deemphasizing
devaluing
moderating
undertoning
de-emphasizing
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
playing down
making light of
toning down
talking down
thinking nothing of
attaching little importance to
giving a lower profile
giving little weight to
dumbing down
understating
trivializing
US
trivialising
UK
undervaluing
underrating
glossing over
underplaying
diminishing
shrugging off
underestimating
underemphasizing
making little of
mitigating
extenuating
qualifying
minifying
brushing aside
palliating
downgrading
discounting
reducing
making nothing of
rationalizing
US
setting little store by
setting no store by
misprizing
sugarcoating
belittling
rationalising
UK
disregarding
selling short
detracting from
holding back
deprecating
prettifying
justifying
euphemizing
depreciating
disparaging
vilipending
holding cheap
softening up
brushing off
rating too low
glozing over
doing an injustice to
explaining away
mincing words
brushing something under the carpet
oversimplifying
simplifying
mincing
belying
covering up
varnishing
glossing
disvaluing
misjudging
underweening
candy-coating
smoothing over
underreporting
thinking too little of
looking down on
taking for granted
subduing
shushing
overlooking
ignoring
under-publicizing
under-declaring
overpassing
condoning
forgiving
excusing
blue-penciling
blue-pencilling
putting on the soft pedal
going easy
remitting
pardoning
passing over
dealing rapidly with
blinking at
winking at
treating as unimportant
papering over
weakening
cheapening
tempering
minimalizing
neglecting
underusing
underutilizing
pooh-poohing
making light
taking lightly
more ❯
“Even in the scene where he appears majestic, Ellison uses the comic to
downplay
his regality.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to belittle or express disapproval of
downgrading
deprecating
belittling
denigrating
depreciating
disparaging
discrediting
dismissing
discounting
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
knocking
slamming
vilifying
defaming
derogating
trashing
slating
panning
vilipending
decrying
dissing
rubbishing
aspersing
bashing
abusing
roasting
slandering
attacking
slighting
insulting
bagging
pummelling
UK
pummeling
skewering
bad-mouthing
talking down
casting aspersions on
detracting from
slagging off
trash-talking
crying down
dumping on
taking to pieces
tearing into
hitting out at
speaking ill of
laying into
having a go at
doing a hatchet job on
dragging through the mud
speaking evil of
throwing mud at
minimizing
US
diminishing
minimising
UK
trivializing
US
trivialising
UK
playing down
degrading
demeaning
undervaluing
putting down
running down
deriding
scorning
underrating
lowering
slurring
minifying
maligning
understating
smearing
dispraising
marginalizing
US
marginalising
UK
scoffing at
pooh-poohing
making light of
writing off
pouring scorn on
pulling apart
treating lightly
kissing off
laughing off
taking down a peg
demoting
disregarding
subordinating
cheapening
deflating
humiliating
lessening
compromising
hammering
contemning
vituperating
devaluating
throwing brickbats at
joking about
shrugging off
making a joke of
ridiculing
mocking
underestimating
reviling
condemning
misprizing
censuring
detracting
squashing
blistering
scorching
ripping
squelching
sneering at
taking down
laughing at
holding cheap
picking holes in
shooting down
cutting to the quick
tearing down
taking a swipe at
shooting full of holes
cutting down to size
doing down
lambasting
besmirching
calumniating
traducing
libeling
US
libelling
UK
blasting
denouncing
stigmatizing
US
disgracing
assailing
blackening
stigmatising
UK
debasing
pulling to pieces
dishonouring
UK
excoriating
scandalizing
US
dishonoring
US
giving a bad name
tarnishing
scandalising
UK
inveighing against
pillorying
reproaching
savaging
sullying
slinging mud at
shaming
injuring
reprobating
railing against
giving a black eye
impugning
flaming
tainting
reprehending
staining
slashing
dragging through the mire
doing a number on
flinging mud at
smirching
castigating
blotting
berating
spreading scandal about
bringing into disrepute
vituperating against
objurgating
defiling
devaluing
finding fault with
disrespecting
crucifying
reducing
casting a slur on
reproving
animadverting on
arraigning
rating
mauling
damaging
muckraking
rapping
besmearing
jumping on
cutting up
carping at
cavilling at
spotting
scathing
lacing to
running smear campaign
tarring and feathering
giving some stick to
bringing shame upon
reflecting badly on
bringing shame on
sledging
befouling
soiling
fulminating against
spoiling
rebuking
disapproving of
potshotting
nitpicking about
ripping up and down
breathing on
giving flak to
giving a bad press to
bringing discredit to
blotching
reprimanding
belaboring
US
mortifying
belabouring
UK
disdaining
speaking badly of
blackening the name of
abasing
blaming
scolding
taunting
upbraiding
backbiting
poisoning
embarrassing
dressing down
telling lies about
spreading lies about
look down one's nose at
bagging on
humbling
offending
chastising
flaying
hitting
faulting
cursing
selling short
running a smear campaign against
picking to pieces
taking to task
sullying the reputation of
making little of
undermining
cutting down
dragging someone's name through the mud
thinking little of
blackening the character of
caning
deploring
execrating
anathematizing
chastening
despising
misrepresenting
belying
nagging
sinking
sneering
carpeting
chiding
fouling
prostituting
villainizing
rejecting
underplaying
demoralizing
US
fustigating
badmouthing
burlesquing
caricaturing
oppressing
persecuting
scoffing
girding
jeering
bawling out
coming down on
chewing out
snubbing
lashing
prejudicing
demoralising
UK
denunciating
hosing
slagging
blemishing
miscalling
slanging
finding fault
slinging mud
tearing to pieces
skinning
blackening someone's name
hauling over the coals
spreading tales about
tearing off a strip
throwing shade
blackening the reputation of
passing strictures upon
ripping up
treating as unimportant
writing false reports about
casting down
giving a rocket
calling names
tearing a strip off
marking wrong
conducting a smear campaign against
showing up
dragging name through mud
nagging at
disapproving
poormouthing
making fun of
questioning
proscribing
admonishing
mistrusting
repudiating
scourging
crushing
putting hooks in
bollocking
demonizing
US
writing down
jinxing
digging
twitting
gibing
demonising
UK
discommending
objecting
refuting
ruining
blackguarding
dragging through mud
talking trash
toning down
zinging
riding
commenting negatively
bringing down
knocking off
condescending
rollicking
lampooning
tearing apart
animadverting upon
criticizing severely
affronting
speaking of with disfavour
having a pop at
taking a dig at
giving comeuppance
putting away
knocking off high horse
annoying
provoking
blowing off
cussing out
swearing at
shouting at
lying about
casting slur on
outraging
hurting
deigning
lashing into
aggravating
spurning
discountenancing
declaiming
prosecuting
haranguing
carping
wounding
indicting
ostracising
UK
ostracizing
US
impeaching
upsetting
clobbering
assaulting verbally
arguing with
declaiming against
giving something a bad press
calling out
protesting against
charging with
objecting to
reading the riot act
slogging
inveighing
fluffing
zapping
trimming
slugging
disagreeing with
giving the business
cutting to bits
picking at
passing judgment
complaining about
skinning alive
giving bad press
nit-picking
calling down
ragging on
losing face
giving a bad name to
putting someone in their place
putting in a bad light
owning
disfavouring
making someone eat crow
attainting
taking down a peg or two
disfavoring
desecrating
causing to lose face
messing with
reaming out
remonstrating with
piling in
slapping
betraying
teasing
starting on
sailing into
starting in
accusing falsely
casting aspersion
knocking down
taking on
giving someone hell
dragging down
plastering
blaspheming
strumpeting
selling out
disobliging
irritating
jumping on one's case
snapping someone's head off
going for the jugular
rapping over the knuckles
biting someone's head off
looking down on
getting angry with
jumping down one's throat
giving someone a bollocking
lashing out
giving someone a roasting
giving someone a rollicking
giving someone a bad press
beating down
criticizing unfairly
bad mouthing
giving black eye
corrupting
perverting
vitiating
depraving
giving offence to
warping
hurting somebody's feelings
treating disrespectfully
cutting dead
stepping on one's toes
causing offence to
animadverting
railing
complaining
subverting
debauching
bastardizing
US
profaning
deteriorating
cankering
marking down
tearing to shreds
sniping at
taking swipe at
brutalizing
US
dehumanizing
US
bemeaning
dehumanising
UK
brutalising
UK
bastardising
UK
lowering the status of
bringing shame to
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to keep secret or cover the truth of
camouflaging
dissembling
obscuring
suppressing
cloaking
disguising
dissimulating
falsifying
minimising
UK
minimizing
US
misrepresenting
varnishing
veiling
veneering
whitewashing
airbrushing
bluffing
extenuating
feigning
masking
masquerading
screening
secreting
simulating
sugarcoating
affecting
concealing
faking
hiding
shamming
keeping secret
keeping quiet about
covering up
dressing up
hushing up
keeping a lid on
keeping dark
de-emphasizing
drawing a veil over
putting on an act
putting up a front
putting up a smoke screen
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
putting on a false front
putting on a front
sweeping under the carpet
sweeping under the rug
belying
covering
shrouding
occulting
blanketing
giving a false idea of
papering over
giving a false account of
pretending
acting
posturing
posing
counterfeiting
assuming
deceiving
lying
misleading
putting on
making out
passing for
letting on
making like
shucking and jiving
going through the motions
professing
stonewalling
fronting
pussyfooting
playing possum
four-flushing
play-acting
bearding
making a pretense
presenting a false face
presenting a false front
making a show
impersonating
kidding
purporting
faking it
making as if
claiming falsely
passing off
faking out
putting it on
passing oneself off as
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to injure a person's dignity and self-respect
humiliating
disgracing
humbling
shaming
chastening
debasing
degrading
abasing
crushing
embarrassing
subduing
discomfiting
mortifying
abashing
putting down
chagrining
demeaning
deflating
denigrating
cheapening
discrediting
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
fouling
lowering
quashing
sinking
smirching
squashing
bemeaning
blistering
breaking
discountenancing
owning
panning
ripping
slamming
smearing
snubbing
withering
confusing
vanquishing
bringing down
showing up
taking down
making ashamed
bringing low
casting down
playing down
putting to shame
running down
shooting down
taking down a peg
tearing down
causing to feel small
causing to lose face
cutting down to size
making a fool of
making someone eat crow
making someone eat humble pie
putting out of countenance
taking down a peg or two
taking the wind out of your sails
settling someone's hash
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