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The juxtaposition is a well-known jest: "Ankh-Morpork! Brawling city of a hundred thousand souls! And, as the Patrician privately observed, ten times that numb
by inopinatus 10y ago
The juxtaposition is a well-known jest:
"Ankh-Morpork! Brawling city of a hundred thousand souls! And, as the Patrician privately observed, ten times that number of actual people."
- Pratchett, Terry (1989), Guards! Guards!, Corgi UK.
I suggest the usage is wry rather than derogatory, unless accompanied by more specific disparagement.