to soft-pedal

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
Attempting to persuade without being obvious about it, by understating a position so the listener takes the good points as obvious
play down or obscure; "His advisers soft-pedaled the president's blunder
soft-pedal soft-pedals soft-pedalling soft-pedalled in AM, use soft-pedaling, soft-pedaled If you soft-pedal something, you deliberately reduce the amount of activity or pressure that you have been using to get something done or seen. He refused to soft-pedal an investigation into the scandal. to make something seem less important or less urgent than it really is
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