Synonym: underact. Similar words: overplay, interplay, soccer player, underpin, underlay, underpaid, underpass, underpart. Meaning: v. 1. act (a role) with great restraint 2. play a card lower than (a held high card).
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(1) We often underplay the skills we have.
(2) While not wanting to underplay the seriousness of the situation, I have to say that it is not as bad as people seem to think.
(3) McQueen seems to inspire Hoffman to underplay, too.
(4) Whatever his motives, Salah was careful to underplay the contribution education might make to the emancipation and liberation of women.
(5) Never underplay the Tory party's ruthlessness towards a limping leader, we were told.
(6) Even if the latest Catholic reforms underplay the offertory ritual, it is not of itself without meaning or challenge.
(7) Such optimism may underplay the potential channels through which the subprime mess can infect other countries.
(8) I don't think you should hamthisscene up, if underplay it.
(9) To underplay the importance of money and benefits to people who work is a mistake.
(10) Opinion polls underplay Mr Le Pen's support; almost half of respondents say they are undecided. Sentencedict.com
(11) I don't think you should ham this scene up, if anything, underplay it.
(12) Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to. Sylvia Plath 
(13) If there are recruiters out there telling job seekers to underplay their ambitions and qualifications, then certainly I could do better.
(14) Or scepticism that claims about the future that are based on scientific knowledge are sometimes overstretched and underplay uncertainties?
(15) If tITe are not recruiters out tITe saying job seekers to underplay theirss ambitions and qualifications, then certainly I have to do preferable.
(16) The Interphone inquiry has faced criticism for including people who made just one call a week, and leaving out children, which some experts said could underplay the risks.
(17) "Once patients have got over the shock of being at high risk of heart disease, they then tend to underplay their risk, " says Dr Farrimond.
(18) Russian officials frequently use the term "falsification of history" to attack perceived attempts to underplay the importance of the Red Army in the fight against Nazi Germany.
(19) But concealed behind the anodyne comments of China's leaders, who generally try to underplay their country's power, a fierce debate over China's international approach is underway.
(20) Peter Newmark has called on the translators to bring their attention to "two underplay aspects of translation", one of which is "the approach to non-literary translation.
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