Similar words: soft pedal, soft palate, pedal, pedalo, bipedal, gas pedal, bipedalism, brake pedal. Meaning: v. play down or obscure soft pedal. n. a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound.
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1. He refused to soft-pedal an investigation into the scandal.
2. The government has been soft-pedalling the question of teachers' pay.
3. The studios soft-pedal the rivalry between their animation departments.
4. The central government started soft-pedaling coercion, emphasizing education and economic development.
5. This is a rather sensitive issue - I think we'd better soft-pedal it for the moment.
6. You might think it wise to find ways to soft-pedal that one.
7. Surely these letters offer dramatic proof that Sister White was correct in warning us not to soft-pedal our urgent last-day warning message.
8. On the issue of industrial pollution, the environmental activist plead with the government not to soft-pedal.
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