underplay

IPA: ʌndɝpɫˈeɪ

(transitive) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
(transitive) To make something seem less important than it really is.
(transitive, card games) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.

Examples of "underplay" in Sentences

There is also something antithetical to making Crispin Glover "underplay" his role.
And Dana Andrews, an underestimated actor who wasn’t fully appreciated because his style was to underplay, which is so difficult.
That is not to underplay the effort of other Mexicans that get involved in many ways, shapes or form of bettering the condition of others.
However, you underplay the imaginative use of a significant, flexible asset at a time when the Royal Navy's reduced number of platforms is thinly spread in support of the UK's interests across the world.
The question for all of us, especially parents of teenagers, to ask is this: Is the media's failure to acknowledge this tragic trinity due to its tendency to overlook or underplay the dangers of marijuana use?
Hunt helps us to recognize a paradox that recent historians of book-collecting underplay, which is that the book-collectors 'obsessive acquisitiveness not only vexed their contemporaries but also beguiled them, as the undertone of affection in period commentaries hints.