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What does soft-pedals mean?

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  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of soft-pedal
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However, it soft-pedals Diana's wildly contradictory nature.
Granted, the film probably soft-pedals the details a little in order to allow for an ending that, although not exactly happy, is not completely downbeat.
He plays Solomon with a powerful inner strength, yet he never soft-pedals the silent nightmare that is Solomon's daily existence.
An Embassy sometimes soft-pedals a demarche when it is ordered to register a complaint but does not want to disrupt comfortable relations with the host government.

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