Example sentences for: underplayed

How can you use “underplayed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Then there's the underplayed fact that Fitzsimmons' mendacity could not possibly have influenced the national debate, because the segments of the Nightline interview in which Fitzsimmons says he lied through his teeth never aired!

  • Arthur Sulzberger intentionally underplayed the paper's reports of Nazi exterminations.

  • Underplayed : A California scientist announced that he has made chickens behave like quails by replacing their embryonic brain cells with quail brain cells.

  • Writing has not been ignored entirely by writers on language, but its role has been consistently underplayed.

  • Slightly derogatory, usually implying that the story was underplayed. (e.g., "The New York Times and Los Angeles Times fronted the Waco controversy, while USA Today stuffed the story").


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