Minimisation or minimization is a type of deception involving denial coupled with rationalisation/rationalization in situations where complete denial is implausible.
Attempts to belittle it are dangerous, allowing the tumour to spread unchecked.
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Despite what the R&A thought, I never set out to belittle them.
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The mood in our countrymen has been overmuch to belittle things American.
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They were not men to belittle the powers of the wonderful Baron.
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But she did not belittle herself in any such tendernesses of regret.
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Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
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He would dismiss her attempts in a most painful and belittling way.
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I'm completely uninterested in calling someone a hoe or belittling them-mosttimes.
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He brandished his sword against his opponents without mocking or belittling them.
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Trump is not the first president to suffer such a rapid belittling.
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They are also advocating for pill testing and other harm minimisation services.
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Designing cabin products with waste minimisation in mind can also help, he says.
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The EPA report is highly critical of attempts at waste minimisation.
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They are also asking for their parties to make plastic waste minimisation a priority.
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He said Russia advocates bilateral agreements with offshore jurisdictions aimed at curbing illegal tax-minimisation schemes.
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Some analysts criticized earlier tests for underplaying the scale of banking problems.
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Indeed, the veteran actor nearly steals the evening with his sly underplaying.
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In contrast to Firth's underplaying, the directing has its overblown, operatic soul.
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At the time, this underplaying of a central historical moment seemed wrong to me.
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Much of development theory clings to an economic vision of growth, underplaying the emotional.
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Hurtling downward in a crouch to minimalize vulnerable areas, they attack and hopefully sweep past each other, snatching the opponent's scarf.
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Minimalize and set yourself free.
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The overbite had been minimalized by braces, and by the time Joyce was fifteen she'd trimmed down to look like Barbie on steroids.
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It also minimalized factionalism, since there was no point making promises to win over key constituencies if one was to be chosen by lot.
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But government ministers from both parties are playingdown any potential disagreement.
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Legal sources in Northern Ireland are playingdown the alleged IRA link.
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The amount of talented players I've seen playingdown here is amazing.
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Other Franco-Chinese players were playingdown any effects of the anti-French boycott.
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Rosberg has also succeeded in playingdown his gilded youth in Monaco.
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I'm not makinglightof him pushing our father down the stairs.
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I resented Snow makinglightof the monster who'd controlled Ric's childhood.
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He is, if he thinks anyone is makinglightof his name.
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Very gently the doctor told him, makinglightof his temporary weakness.
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Second of all: I don't appreciate you makinglightof this.
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Boston's Sean Kuraly fell downplaying the puck behind his net.
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You don't bring Chelsea and United downplaying Uriah Heep.
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Afterwards, Flanagan admitted: If I missed those three putts, I was one downplaying 17.
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Just don't run the batteries downplaying Jedi Knights.
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He was downplaying by the edge of the river when a piece of the bank caved in and splashed him.
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You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry.
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Germany's justice minister accused Trump of trivializing anti-Semitism and racism.
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In other words, why are you people trivializing a serious matter with your sixth grade analysis?
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I don't we're trivializing in any way by writing about anything whether it's nonfiction or fiction.
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In no way is it trivializing anything.
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Trivial and trivializing, the talking heads snorted.
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Your sentiments concerning Apple could have been expressed without denigrating or trivializing a symbol that many people feel strongly about.
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Gore's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention... Is it trivializing to think of a Presidential campaign as a baseball season?
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They criticized the restaurant owner for "trivializing an important movement for the African-American community," according to the media outlet.
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And, as much as I don't want you to think I'm trivializing it by including it with stuff about, what .
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I'd better stay away from a wish for reincarnation as an astronaut icon who might be infamous among psychs for trivializing their profession.
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Using mostly a handheld camera and a guitar-heavy soundtrack, the film shifts comfortably from comedy to drama without political rhetoric or trivializing its characters.
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Don't let the examples of Miers and Rice fool you: Trivializing female leaders is a bipartisan media pastime.
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Trivializing this violent crime sends a dangerous message to the public, RAINN spokesperson Katherine Hull said in a statement obtained by TheWrap.
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It certainly won't be a good idea to trivialize someone's concerns or worries!
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I don't mean to trivialize the suffering that your condition causes.