underemphasize
underemphasise BrE

"I don't want to underemphasize how disappointing it's been."

"You can't underemphasize how bad it would be."

Equalizers can deal with acoustical and speaker resonances that overemphasize some tones and underemphasize others.

Critics also say even well-done meta-analyses have been oversold in that they underemphasize the degree of uncertainty in the findings.

Perhaps his insensitivity to very real declines in public trust of politics led him to underemphasize the importance of trust in social science findings.

In "Triumph and Tragedy," Churchill went to great lengths to underemphasize his substantial disagreements with Eisenhower in 1945.

While Huntington has identified much of what is generally understood as conservative thought there is one aspect, which is of particular importance for our task, which he seems to underemphasize.

On the one hand, Ross's (1977) hypothesis of a fundamental attribution error suggests that observers are incorrect, because they show a general tendency to overemphasize dispositional explanations and underemphasize situational ones.

Longtime UCLA nutrition researcher David Heber, MD, PhD, claims that most diets overemphasize weight loss and underemphasize body fat percentage.

Eighty-five percent of all emergency room doctors in the United States are white, Dr. Todd said, and some might unknowingly empathize with patients of their own race, and tend to underemphasize the pain of another.

The Dissent Saying That Culture Plays a Greater Role Other critics complain that evolutionary psychologists often underemphasize the extent to which culture influences human behavior, and ignore equally plausible cultural explanations for their data.

As a result of this work, Quinn argues that, while formal (i.e. rational, in the sense defined above) planning systems serve useful purposes, they focus unduly upon measurable quantities and underemphasize 'the vital qualitative organizational and power-behavioral factors that so often determine strategic success'(p. 15).

A number of euphemisms also help to underemphasise the severity of police violence.