Gretchen Primack
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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
—H G Wells - A Modern Utopia litotes
A figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating its opposite. Some examples of litotes: no small victory, not a bad idea, not unhappy. Litotes is the opposite of hyperbole.
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