double negative

How To Use double negative In A Sentence

• Turned off by the airport, took Mormon Mesa Rd. across, then turned left onto, uh, Double Negative Way, just before the cattle guard. Greg.org: the making of
• This is dedicated to friends of double negatives and to those who have wondered what the word pas, ‘step,’ has to do with negation in French
• This had a double negative effect: slow growth and complete overpopulation of the fish ponds.
• In some English dialects, after all, a double negative reinforces a negative, it doesn't negate it.
• when a colossal failure such as feith, calls rumsfeld “not a failure”, does that make a double negative, thereby in fact calling rumsfeld the monumental failure that he is? Think Progress » Rumsfeld: Not a failure, just misunderstood.
• So does “Madame Justice” work like a double negative and make the term masculine? The Volokh Conspiracy » Madame Justice
• Indeed, a double negative can only make sense by inference from its context, which is not always obvious. Times, Sunday Times
• I am irritated that I used a double negative ( "not unexcited") where I meant a single ( "not excited" or "unexcited"). Linkspam for 10-6-2009
• The phrase 'a not unfamiliar situation' is an example of a double negative.
• The phrase 'a not unfamiliar situation' is an example of a double negative.