Word: downplay
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...first, I tried to downplay the awkward spectacle of a bulky six-foot male riding shotgun to a female eight inches shorter and roughly half his body weight, giving our fellow riders the “I’m just letting the li’l lady take my chopper for a spin” nod. Detecting a measure of disbelief on the part of our fellow riders, I soon reverted to the more readily believed “I’ve misplaced my penis and she’s helping me to locate it?...
None of this should be terribly surprising. There has always been a tendency among America’s intellectuals to downplay the crimes of left-wing regimes, and Castro’s Cuba, in particular, has long been the darling of the American left. With its record of standing up to “Yanqui imperialism,” its much-touted system of universal health care, and its post-Cold War isolation, Cuba’s nasty and oppressive regime seems sad and bullied and even a little bit cute—the “Tickle-Me-Elmo?...
...Wright said he was making no attempt to downplay the severity or consequences of rape and noted that his piece should only be read in concert with an opposing piece on the same page...
Other students at the meeting suggested the group downplay Vaux’s popularity, instead emphasizing his ability to integrate other subjects within his field...
...Others pointed out that both mammography and breast cancer treatments are better now than they were in the 1970s and '80s, when some of those studies were conducted. Some breast cancer advocates have even wondered whether the Danish researchers might have had an economic or a political incentive to downplay the benefits of what are fairly expensive screening programs...