li­to­tee­si

1. 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"

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• engl.litotes
• saksaLitotes
• ranskalitote
• virolitootes

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