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soft-pedaledverbpast tense of soft-pedal to reduce in apparent importanceshe politely tries to soft-pedal her accomplishments when talking to less fortunate people de-emphasized, downplayed, played down underplayed, understatedbad-mouthed, belittled, cried down, decried, denigrated, deprecated, depreciated, derogated, dismissed, disparaged, kissed off, minimized, poor-mouthed, put down, ran down, talked down, trashed, trash-talked exaggerated, overdid, overdrew, overstatedelaborated, embellished, embroidered, magnified, padded, stretchedfudged, hedgedmelodramatized, overemphasized, overplayed, sensationalized |