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litotes

English

  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”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 lítote litotes, understatement

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