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Examples
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"You've got to accentuate the positive and decentuate the negative", as the old song goes.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local coloradogal 2010
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"You've got to accentuate the positive and decentuate the negative", as the old song goes.
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"You've got to accentuate the positive and decentuate the negative", as the old song goes.
Logophile77 commented on the word decentuate
To unaccentuate; to tone down.
December 8, 2017