negative pregnant

English

Noun

negative pregnant (plural negatives pregnant)

  1. (law) A denial which implies its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. For example, "I have never consumed cocaine while on duty" might imply that the person making the statement had consumed cocaine on other occasions.
    Synonym: pregnant denial
    Antonym: affirmative pregnant
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