downplaying

However, environmentalists say the state is downplaying the risk.

It’s heavy, sure, but Griffin isn’t downplaying the macabre somberness of suicide, she’s emphasizing how silly and shortsighted our darkest impulses can be.

Environmental advocates, however, have accused the state of downplaying the results of air sampling.

The audio, leaked from an August fundraising dinner in Aspen, Colorado, finds the former president riffing on the family of Corey Comperatore, who was killed at the event, and downplaying the damage.

He speaks in sharp, measured bursts, downplaying his role in the mass escape that made headlines.