Usage of "down playing"

Minimisation or minimization is a type of deception involving denial coupled with rationalisation/rationalization in situations where complete denial is implausible.

Usage of down playing in English

Boston's Sean Kuraly fell down playing the puck behind his net. 
 Reuters 

You don't bring Chelsea and United down playing Uriah Heep. 
 The Guardian 

Afterwards, Flanagan admitted: If I missed those three putts, I was one down playing 17. 
 The Irish Times 

Just don't run the batteries down playing Jedi Knights. 
 Wired 

He was down playing by the edge of the river when a piece of the bank caved in and splashed him. 
 Moon-Face, and Other Stories 

Old Cady Graves paced up and down playing his violin, as usual, and calling off for the quadrille, in his high pitched rhythmic cadence. 
 Kit of Greenacre Farm 

Dunbar was two down playing the 17th, but his opponent's three-putt bogey from the back fringe saw the match go to the final hole. 
 The Irish Times 

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Meanings of down playing in English