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T S Eliot's quirky figure of speech
Answer for the clue "T S Eliot's quirky figure of speech ", 7 letters:
litotes
Alternative clues for the word litotes
- Ironical understatement
- using ___: Mary had no giant lamb / Its fleece was not unwhite
- Figure of speech that employs ironic understatement
- Understatement for effect
- Little child in stories making understatement
- Toilets revolting; and that's an understatement
- Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
- Literary understatement
- Figure of speech like "no mean feat"
Usage examples of litotes.
With no small joy we have observed the litotes bushes, once more in flower down by the shores of our literal sea.