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soft-pedalingverbpresent participle of soft-pedal to reduce in apparent importanceshe politely tries to soft-pedal her accomplishments when talking to less fortunate people de-emphasizing, downplaying, playing down underplaying, understatingbad-mouthing, belittling, crying down, decrying, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, derogating, dismissing, disparaging, kissing off, minimizing, poor-mouthing, putting down, running down, talking down, trashing, trash-talking exaggerating, overdoing, overdrawing, overstatingelaborating, embellishing, embroidering, magnifying, padding, stretchingfudging, hedgingmelodramatizing, overemphasizing, overplaying, sensationalizing |