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• v  act (a role) with great restraint
• v  play a card lower than (a held high card)

• The master showman who can summon up a sense of grand occasion from the most pedestrian of circumstances wasn't going to underplay this one.
• Although he was in effect a one-man operation, Hurok liked to underplay his own indispensability.
• Authorities were slow to react to a catastrophic earthquake in 1985, leaving much of the rescue efforts to the public while officials tried to underplay the casualties.

• underact

• overact

News & Articles

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• Huge investment needs temper Green bond hype
  * Survey estimates USD6trn needed for Green projects by 2020 * Supras underplay growth potential in Green bond programmes * Bankers say niche sector can thrive with standardisation By John Geddie LONDON, ...
  Oct. 2, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Allen Doyle in Metro Toronto
  When everybody was saying three-peat, I was saying there was a reason no one has,Doyle said. "I tried to underplay it and downplay it some, but golf's a game when you're on, you're on and you can make things happen. And when you're a...
• Greg Shipperd in Sydney Morning Herald
  They're a pretty experienced team I think and they have a very senior leadership group in their team and you don't play Test cricket without having a certain skills set,Shipperd said. "While not wanting to underplay the value of...
• Gabriele Muccino in AZ Central.com
  Will had to underplay him for more than half the movie,Muccino says. "Ben is nothing like Will."