Assertion: litotes | /r/HasProperty | a form of understatement
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Litotes is Always a Form of Understatement
text: Litotes is a kind of understatement , where the speaker or writer uses a negative of a word ironically , to mean the opposite.
text: Litotes is a type of understatement that uses negative words to express the contrary.
text: Litotes is a form of understatement, more specifically meiosis, and is always deliberate with the intention of emphasis.
text: Litotes actually is a form of understatement that uses a type of double negative (although a grammatically correct one).
text: Litotes is a figure of speech and a form of understatement in which a sentiment is expressed ironically by negating its contrary.
text: Litotes is a form of understatement, the intentional presentation of something as smaller, worse, or lesser than it really is.
text: Litotes is a form of understatement, always deliberate and with the intention of emphasis.
text: Litotes is a form of understatement, always deliberate and with the intention of emphasis.
text: Litotes is a form of understatement, always deliberate and with the intention of emphasis.
text: Litotes is a form of understatement, always deliberate and with the intention of emphasis.
text: Litotes is a form of understatement, more specifically meiosis, and is always deliberate with the intention of emphasis.
text: Litotes is a form of understatement, always deliberate and with th.....
text: Litotes is a form of understatement.
text: Litotes is a form of understatement which uses the denied opposite of a word to weaken or soften a message.
text: Litotes is a form of understatement and is always deliberate with the intention of emphasis.