Como dizer "Tratar com menos importância" em inglês

My suggestion:

To make light of.

Bye!

One more suggestion:

To downplay.


Bye!

Opções:

a. Treat something as less important
b. See something as less important
c. Regard something as less important
d. Subordinate

= ''If you subordinate something to another thing, you regard it or treat it as less important than the other thing.'' [Reverso Collins]

''If it can be done in the world of commerce, why should we apparently treat it as less important in the crucial area of family law?'' [Google UK]

to laugh off = fazer pouco caso
to turn a blind eye = ignorar voluntariamente, fechar os olhos

Para mim, "to turn a blind eye" é pior que "tratar com menos importância". É não tratar de forma alguma.

"turning a blind eye" to me, would work fine, provided that it was of the latter character own volition (by choice, as a way of avoiding a greater harm...etc), that would be equivalent to dismissing.




Which would be a little different in:
"Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace."

Here, certainly there are at least three parties, the Manager, the bully (the harasser/bossy person/pester etc) and the bullied ("the target"). My thinking, tough.

"To laugh off" in the sentence have a stoic ring to it, that is the latter character choose just dismiss the comment and keep his/her calm/cool.

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It is the equivalent to "smiled" while chosing not be baited into a derisive comment, in order to end the discussion.

Notice: I mean discussion (conversa/debate) here, not "discussão".

I really like the idiom "turning a blind eye" as in:

"Management often turn a blind eye to bullying in the workplace."