Crossword-Solution: UNDERPLAY 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Underplay v. i. To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner;
to underact a part.
Underplay v. i. To play a low card when holding a high one, in the
hope of a future advantage.
Underplay n. The act of underplaying.

We have 6 clues for the answer “UNDERPLAY”

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Deal with subtly 1 answer
Hold back on the stage 1 answer
Opposite of emote 1 answer
play a card lower than 1 answer
DE-EMPHASIZE 5 answers
Loot 37 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with UNDERPLAY (5)

How came you here, and whither are you bound?" And the speaker, with a quizzical smile upon his face, which half concealed and half revealed an underplay of devilish mockery, put his hand familiarly upon the shoulder of Ashton, and then grasped him by the hand and gave it a hearty shake.
From Wealth to Poverty Austin Potter 2004
The Shaksperean compositions, on vertebers and frame-work of the primary passions, portray (essentially the same as Homer's,) the spirit and letter of the feudal world, the Norman lord, ambitious and arrogant, taller and nobler than common men--with much underplay and gusts of heat and cold, volcanoes and stormy seas.
Complete Prose Works Walt Whitman 2005
Even after Langdon was gone, the atmosphere of the room still smirched by unholy underplay, thoughts of the girl came to Crane, jostling and elbowing the evil conceptions of his restless mind.
Thoroughbreds W. A. Fraser 2005
Half an hour passed cheerfully in the folding of dresses to an underplay of planned escapes, and she had just locked the box, when Mrs.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 2005
The underplay of meaning was not the only subtleness of the speech, for the tone in which it had been uttered was rich in interrogation, as though its author, while realizing the pony's dimness of perception, half believed the animal had noticed Miss Radford's lapse of hospitality.
The Two-Gun Man Charles Alden Seltzer 2006

Quotes with UNDERPLAY (3)

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.
Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
When we overemphasise miracles we underplay values.
Sunday Adelaja
When we overemphasise miracles we underplay kingdom principles.
Sunday Adelaja
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1999–2015).