German-English translations for herunterspielen

belittle
us
Dont belittle your colleagues
downplay
us
On the other hand, I do not wish to downplay the importance of other alternative sources of electrical energy, particularly those sources that do not produce CO2 emissions. Ich möchte andererseits die Bedeutung anderer alternativer Energieträger für die Stromerzeugung nicht herunterspielen, vor allem solcher, die keine Kohlendioxidemissionen verursachen. He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.