a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
understatement
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- litotes, meiosis — understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
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is a kind of:
- statement — a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
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- thing or two (Idiom)
- litotes
- Hidden Reserve (in accounting)
- understate
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- meiosis
- Robert Henry Newell (literature)
- highly (computer jargon)
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