talk sth down
— phrasal verb with talk uk/tɔːk/us/tɑːk/verb [ I ]
to talk about something in a way that makes it seem less important or less serious than it really is:
He began his lecture by talking down the initiatives of a rival company.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Treating as unimportant
- blow
- blow sth/sb off
- brush sb/sth aside
- denigrate
- deprecate
- derogate
- derogate from sth
- laugh
- never
- play fast and loose with sth/sb idiom
- pour
- pour scorn on sb/sth idiom
- scorn
- scornful
- scruple
- talk
- wave
- wave sth aside
- write
- write sb/sth off
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Exaggerating & playing down