Praise By Faint Praise

last modified: September 22, 2012

aka 'Litotes' - a RhetoricalTechnique where something is emphasized by understatement.

See definition at http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=litotes - A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in. This is no small problem.


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