Taʾkīd al-dhamm bimā yushbih al-madḥ reverses the direction of the preceding technique. The listener anticipates a concession or virtue, but the apparently corrective phrase only deepens the blame.
In one form, a commendable quality is denied and the apparent exception still fails to amount to genuine praise. In the other, a fault is affirmed and the subsequent exception introduces another fault.
Its defining feature is reinforced condemnation through the expectation of relief, not a simple inventory of defects.