0 the use of two negatives (= words that mean "no") in the same phrase or sentence:
The phrase "a not unfamiliar situation" is an example of a double negative.
1 the use of two negative words together in a statement that has a negative meaning, as in "I didn't do nothing."
First, as regards donations, the boundary is set very inelegantly in a double negative of, "not less than £5,000".
In sum, the efficacy of ' anti-economic ' deployments of money as ' oppositional ideology ' is rendered here as a double negative.
Actually, the double negative has a long history in the spoken language.
In this example, the parent corrects both of the child's errors - the double negative and the incorrect agreement.
Reflections on a double negative : misarticulation and inconsistency.
It contains a double negative which produced a nonsensical result.
We wanted to get rid of the double negative, but we were not party to the removal of the whole paragraph.
The use of the double negative lends itself to confusion.
