toned down

“Dick may be the most-hated player ever to win the game, and we're sure the years haven't toned down his antics.”

Big Brother 13: Five "Dynamic Duos" We'd Let Back Into the House

“Porch to the first edition, a rhetorical introduction addressed to the general public, is held in Germany to be valueless and that it was noticed only for the Bemerkung concerning the offensive passages which Professor Weil had toned down in his translation.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

“Week by week these losses grew less, until they finally shrunk into the hundreds, but the vivid descriptions of the gory conflict were not toned down during the whole summer.”

Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

“Had Gustave Dore entered the art world of Paris in the conventional way, the master might have toned down his exuberance, taught him reserve, and gradually led him along until his tastes were formed and character developed.”

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters