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Excellent and appropriate ref, slithy.
I especially like the example of litotes as ironic understatement:
We saw him throw the buckets of paint at his canvas in disgust, and the result did not perfectly represent his subject, Mrs. Jittery.
A great word: litotes
Hmmm. Useful, certainly, but sounds a little too much like a vaguely embarrassing condition for my liking.
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