This work analyzes some of the different ways in which Brazilians express negative positions, using strategies to keep the face of interlocutors. To this end, this research employs a qualitative-interpretative analysis of ten short stories published by Luis Fernando Verissimo from the 1970s onwards. Eleven different ways in which Brazilians indirectly express a negative position are highlighted from the selected corpus. These highlighted situations indicate how Brazilians navigate their high context culture that has a preference towards avoiding direct confrontation using resources such as body language and implied messages as communication tools. Based on the description and categorization of different forms of negation, the paper aims to help Portuguese as a Second Language teachers reflect on the importance of dealing with the subject with their PSL students since, in order to communicate smoothly in Brazilian Portuguese, it is essential that students understand the different guises that negation can take in the language.