litotes

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• 29. februar 2016 fra wordnet.princeton.edu

  litotes — navneord — engelsk

  understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"