"negative pregnant" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: negatives pregnant [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|negatives pregnant}} 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. Wikipedia link: negative pregnant Categories (topical): Law Synonyms: pregnant denial

Inflected forms

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