~ (on) sth (informal) to treat sth as less serious or important than it really is:
[VN] Television has been accused of soft-pedalling bad news. [also V]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of soft-pedal come from?
This entry for soft-pedal is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is soft-pedal a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, soft-pedal is tagged as verb.
Does soft-pedal appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — soft-pedal appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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