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单词 make light of
释义

make light of

Treat as unimportant: I didn’t mean to make light of your problems...
  • Companies that make light of elders are finding a consumer force to reckon with.
  • This is the second time Mr Howard has made light of such an incident.
  • Unfortunately, the subtlety, range and freshness of her work has too often been ignorantly made light of.

Synonyms

play down, downplay, understate, underrate, rate too low, not do justice to, do an injustice to, underplay, de-emphasize, underemphasize, trivialize, minimize, diminish, downgrade, reduce, lessen, brush aside, gloss over, shrug off
informal soft-pedal, sell short
rare misprize, minify
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