double negative

Using the double negative did more than make the rule confusing.

A double negative is now sometimes used as nearly or quite equivalent to an affirmative.

The use of a double negative was borrowed from the Portuguese.

In Stout's day the double negative was used to add emphasis.

And when does a double negative become a positive?

Does not less of worse produce a happy double negative for America's travelers?

By using double negative imagery, she raises some interesting questions about our sense of place.

"What kind of an excuse is a double negative, boy?

The basic point is that a double negative is involved.

Instead, he advocated the use of the double negative.

- was built on a double negative, enough to confuse a lawyer.

Archer knew that when Reed used the double negative it was a sign of trouble.

And that is a double negative so that's balanced.

Correction, didn't mean the double negative in the first sentence there!

"I can tell you that a double negative is grammatically confusing. "

Join them with the executive in the revision, and they will have a double negative."

The question of blonde and brunette was settled with a double negative.

After a moment, she continued, rather bitterly: "Code double negative!"

The uses of the double negative have been more than mastered by political racketeers.

For more information, see the article Double negative.

It took a second for Petra to untangle the double negative.

That phrase, with its ambiguous double negative, has given rise to inconsistent decisions.

Double Negative also developed the typeface used for the film's title sequence.

A double negative occurs when two forms of negation are used in the same sentence.

It went from meaning simple to using the idea of understatement which involves double negatives.