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noun • understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) | ||||||||
| 33% | 7 | Peculiar sort taking peculiar stand | ||||||
noun • a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it • beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | ||||||||
| 17% | 9 | Used to describe the transformation of a figure into another similar figure | ||||||
noun • (mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point. | ||||||||
Lotties Peculiar Figure
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LITOTES which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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LITOTES
Updated: October 14, 2023
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