How To Use Connotation In A Sentence

In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!
Caesarian deliveries were occasionally performed in the Middle Ages, but carried with them connotations of the devil, as the child would be not of woman born.
It has profoundly negative connotations. Times, Sunday Times
Thus the new connotations and conceptualizations put forth by the Fathers revitalized the Church's memory of what the Apostles taught, and historical theology today would enable us to revitalize our memory of what the "unsurpassable" Fathers taught. Archive 2007-03-01
Originally, Kring wanted to use the word 'banzai', but Masi lobbied against it for its war-like connotations, and 'yatta' was selected. September 2007

That is why I use the term devotee because it brings a different connotation; someone who is dedicated to following a specific faith rather than simply acknowledging it because they were born into it. The Nation: Top Stories
By the nineteenth century, the Beta Israel eventually took up stigmatized craft occupations, which also became associated with the connotation Falasha (Quirin, 1992). Ethiopian Jewish Women.
It was called IRL when I got here and the IRL had a negative connotation with a lot of fans because of the split and the divorce. Karl Ueberbacher: Indycar's Las Vegas Gamble: Series Chief Doubles Down on Season Finale
I use the word in its connotation of an unimpaired or uncorrupted state of affairs.
It had connotations of blameworthy action, perversity or obstinacy.
The lorette carried within her persona all the connotations of urban display and luxury consumption.
It is true that the dic - tionary meaning of the term symmetry has shifted since antiquity, but none of the original connotations has become obsolete, certainly not entirely so. SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY
They are likely to receive a diagnosis that carries strong negative connotations. Trauma and Recovery
The female fox is called a vixen, but if a human is called a vixen, the connotation is an attractive but cunning woman! Summit Daily News - Top Stories
I am referring to a well-defined phenomenon with this term, which as such carries no disparaging connotation whatsoever.
Crafty once meant powerful, and cunning meant knowledgeable; each has gradually taken on negative connotations (this is called pejoration). Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral
Thanks to Cheney, "dither" has taken on a new connotation for me. Mitchell Bard: We Should Be Grateful That Obama Is "Dithering"
In the second place, there is nothing whatever in the connotation of "kibosh" that would prevent it appearing in the pages of your magazine. "I do not enjoy the suggestion that you have a better ear or eye for how I want my words to read than I do."
Words and terminologies that were once accepted or unquestioned are now being changed in all languages because over a period of time these words have lost their original meaning and acquired negative connotations.
Our society often attaches a negative connotation to the word ‘game.’
I tell him I don't know what either flotsam or jetsam mean beyond their colloquial connotations.
And that's why the term differentiation has acquired a negative connotation. The Times of India
As an explorer and practitioner of the core connotation of traditional culture, Mr Xifang Jin, in his years of meditation and enlightenment seeking, has discovered two ways of human learning.
Certainly, there are marked, and perhaps primary, political connotations to such myths.
He hated the phrase “student body,” for instance, insisting that “studentry” was both clearer and without the ghoulish connotations he saw in the former term. On writing by stephen king
For Reginfo, the top horizontal line with the curvilinear arrow bears the same connotation as one of the implications of the quartered circle.
Phrases like ‘puppy farms’ with its connotation of cute and cuddly has changed into a byword for appalling dens of excruciating cruelty.
Doctors previously used the term hormone-replacement therapy (HRT), which carried the connotation that menopausal women were missing something essential. The Seattle Times
The word 'lady' has connotations of refinement and excessive femininity that some women find offensive.
Yet a similar confusion of thought is involved in this indiscriminate application of the term piracy, unless we emphasize the fact that in this connexion it must be divested of its ordinary moral connotation. England under the Tudors
In that interview, with a department employee listening in, she explained that the root of the word intifada meant "shaking off," but that it had acquired other connotations because of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)
Once one realizes that we can appeal to connotation theory, and more generally the theory of exposition, without invoking new entities, the door is opened to applying mathematical analyses (all of which are exponible, for Ockham) to all kinds of things, and in particular to physical nature. William of Ockham
And yes, to an Asian-American in San Francisco, the word conservative likely has negative connotations related to anti-gay bigotry, whereas to an African-American in a crime-ridden neighborhood on the East Coast it might have positive connotations related to issues of personal responsibility and character. Matthew Yglesias » Are African-Americans Conservative, or Is Ideological Self-Identification Meaningless?
The sea bream, or tai in Japanese, carries auspicious connotations because of the phonetic association of its name with the Japanese word for congratulations (medetai).
Some of their words seemed to carry connotations that I was never able to recognize.
I find there are too many negative connotations to genre writing, especially to the ever-so-popular science fiction / fantasy.
Her claim that the term impure (teme’ah) is obfuscated because of its biblical connotation of transmission of impurity and the rabbinic usage of unavailability for sexual purposes needs further clarification. Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.
Then the thesis briefly introduces cultural connotations of scholar - bureaucrat group.
The idea that failure doesn't have negative connotations is amazing, because in real life there is no way to move forward without having to deal with failure. The Sun
Punic names were characteristically theophoric, and the Romanizing upper classes of North Africa typically assumed Latin names that retained the religious or moralistic connotations of the originals.
The current rash of quick-turn CEO replacements, with the former CEO being brought in for a replay, creates some interesting connotations.
However, in some circumstances, nonsexual conduct may take on sexual connotations and rise to the level of sexual harassment.
This use never caught on, but the devilish connotation of the word reappeared over 200 years later when Sir Walter Scott used Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
Such an experience, which seems very remote from our jet-age culture, carried with it connotations of personal development and maturation.
A definition is just a definition, but when the definiendum is a word already in common use with highly favorable connotations, it is clear that we are really trying to be persuasive; we are implicitly recommending the achievement of optimal states. NYT > Home Page
In addition to that I think that the ending is less then definite, taking into account the predominant viewpoint of the film and the combinative delusional and Oedipal connotations of the film.
In Chinese, the character refers to an animal of the monkey species, and has the connotation of `parsimoniousness.' Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
The term is not new and it continues to suffer from the negative connotations of information overload. Times, Sunday Times
Nonetheless, the localisms introduced lingering friction in the international discourse, which has been compounded by the US not adopting ‘neo-liberal’ either, because of its own peculiar left-wing connotations of ‘liberal’.
The raw, unrehearsed commentaries reveal the connotations that define particular types of music and the groups who identify with them.
A major thrust in our current work is aimed at determining more precisely what shades of emotional, connotational or semantic content are able to cross through the brainstem and how they affect cognitive processing on the other side. Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture
And so it acquired its contemporary, pejorative connotation of idle chatter.
There's also, in some of his works, a sense of festination -- of explosive speed, though that doesn't have quite the same connotation as "to festinate" -- as though the work is hurrying to get through itself before devolving into violent noise. "...my music is also seductive, even spiritual"
Eng. for “young hobo,” one who is new on the road and usually in the company of an older tramp, with catamite connotations. Literacy; why is it that we want to stay with modern meaning rather than return to the True meaning of a word? « Children Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News
In India the word spastic is used without negative connotations, with The Spastics Society of India being India’s most noted non-profit and a non-governmental organization NGO, working for Neuro-Muscular and Developmental Disabilities. SYNCHRONIZED SPAZ ATTACK - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Can be seen everywhere on campus celebrity of Painting, epigram, motto, displayed a rich cultural connotations.
The culture of administrative self-accusation consists of two kinds of key elements: the subjectivity with special connotation and the regulatory.
Despite the negative connotations, it can be healthy. Times, Sunday Times
The phrase that Walt popularized that raises hackles, because it is a name, which implies a (corporate) entity being named and is for that reason vaguely conspiratorial in connotation, is “Israel Lobby.” Matthew Yglesias » A Valentine From Steven Walt
Employing unit is a concept and category with particular connotation and denotation in our labor law.
The portrait is an endlessly interesting example, a theme redolent with social connotations and artistic references.
To chill out and to relax have similar connotations and implications. Times, Sunday Times
The notion of abuse has wider connotations than the physical.
Thank Christ I changed my name bac~ Never thought Slaughter would have less murderous connotations than the alternative. ' Quite Ugly One Morning
This is nearly the opposite of the philosophical connotation of "existentialism" of being as happy with nothing as you would be with whatever wealth you might accumulate Jon Stewart's Extended Interview with Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham | Indecision Forever | Political Humor, 2010 Election, and Satire Blog | Comedy Central
So the radical fringe on the left, following the Alinsky playbook and in an effort to continue to move our equally free country in the direction of the equally miserable, disposed of the term reparations, along with it's negative connotations, in favor of a much more common and already accepted term, "justice. All articles at Blogcritics
Kinship terms can also be broken into components, such as the term ‘father’, and this could be associated with various ‘connotations - positive or negative… [for] each of the following relationships: generation, collaterality, sex, relative age, affinity etc’.
I find that statement particularly significant in that it has a pejorative connotation: bigness is apparently assumed to require restraint. The New Society: New Title, Same Old Debate
These issues and their connotations for academic freedom and campus sustainability are complex and convoluted.
When our words lose the ability to convey an ethical connotation they become sterile and worthless.
The different connotation between them dominates the aesthetic criterion. Anyway , the otherness of their conventional architecture is dissimilitude .
And afflicted people will tacitly struggle against such connotations until the spectrum of acceptance broadens and mental impediments are no longer considered disabilities, but respected facts of life.
All kinds of expectations and connotations lie embedded in ‘comedy’: for example, the trap of sentimentalism.
The oddest is the Chicken Dinner, apparently chosen for the connotation of prosperity. It's a beautiful world we live in
It obviously does carry some negative connotations, but people are increasingly prepared to buy there. Times, Sunday Times
Economy in denotation and connotation can prohibit thought as well as promote it.
Additional, the furniture culture connotation of Europe type style is very rich, suit decorate the style is Oushi classicism .
I use the term handyman deliberately because it has a kind of unsophisticated connotation that is meant to quietly offend an expert tradesperson. EzineArticles
There's no emotion or umbrage here or even shit-picking attached to telling you that when I read "harangue" I assume "bombastic ranting," which is not my connotation, but a standard and prevailing definition of the word "harangue. Readercon 16: Day 1
And you are right, it is a good word in it’s original meaning and it is regrettable that the “zombie” connotations have overwhelmed it’s meaning when there isn’t an adequate replacement (educable, educatable & teachable have their own connotations). The Volokh Conspiracy » Adderall
I object to the term sulfite mining gives it a bad connotation. One Mom
She also worries that orthorexia has positive connotations. Times, Sunday Times
The connotation and the practical teaching status quo had been analyzed about the applied chemistry specialty.
Roberto Mancini's flowing, beautifully styled locks means the word "hairdryer" has a very different connotation at Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
Speaking French has contradictory connotations, depending on the context: It is a sign of education in administrative circles but is offensive at the village level, where ‘acting like a mzungu’ is considered a sign of a bad attitude.
For many people, care homes for the elderly have negative connotations. Times, Sunday Times
Also, for what it is worth, the word overdetermined always has connotations of Althusser for me. Wired Campus
If you're in any way a regular consumer of news media, you've probably got that condition where, when a word is repeated enough times, it sort of detaches from its meaning and just becomes a sound with no connotation.
Trago does not strictly mean an alcoholic drink, although that connotation is very strong. Trago always alcohol?
A 1978 Athens Messenger article said that the area was dubbed Mount Nebo because of its biblical connotations. The Post: News
The connotation and the practical teaching status quo had been analyzed about the applied chemistry specialty.
‘Dilettante’ is not a word with a positive connotation in most circles, whereas ‘purist’ is, I think.
Furthermore, both self and not self-and the various divisions of each that I have outlined-may be imbued with affective connotations.
Hence, the hitherto morally ambivalent or neutral word daimon acquires an almost exclusively evil connotation in the monotheistic context. DEMONOLOGY
There is lots of practical advice - spend only cash, and focus on your feelings about money and whether money has negative connotations for you. The Sun
Even in social circles there are serious attempts to change some words and phraseologies to remove the connotations that these terminologies have acquired over a long time.
In the Russian culture, the colour with the biggest variety of negative connotations reflected in idiomatic expressions is black.
It is an example that has connotations of sacredness associated with the blessed tree.
The word evoked connotations of an elite society in which Khalil was an esteemed member. Stealing Candy
By consciously subverting the genre of figurative painting, he evokes a miscellaneous sense of emptiness, horror, desire and unutterable inner fire with Eastern religious connotations.
Mysterious indigo with its connotations of protection was a substance and colour full of symbolism in the distant places of Arabia.
Most top athletes despise the notion of luck, with its amateurish connotations of fluke and happenstance.
The mandala, with its divine and esoteric connotations, has been a key construct in temple building since Vedic times.
Another example would be the glitter of metal: the image adds a connotation of cruelty to the glory of a pasha, previously described with true oriental bombast, as the light of lights.
The connotations are what's important here, though; "nipper" implies a child who's small enough and quick enough to "nip" -- to dart nimbly to and fro, here and there, like the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist or Shakespeare's Puck. Losts in Translation
One connotation of the term is that the imbalance must be really serious or exceptional.
Those of us who weren't born before WWII know the denotation of the name ‘Hitler’ but we have no experience with the connotation.
It was once called hypochondriasis, but 'hypochondriac' has judgmental connotations, implying someone is just needy and attention-seeking. Times, Sunday Times
What you write is as important as the way you read it which increases the risk of execution for scribes who are not careful enough about homophony, homography, and literary connotations ; one emperor's tendency to paranoïa critique is often deadly. Languagehat.com: SHIH SHIH.
Terms such as toilet and lavatory have, like privy, undergone pejoration over the years (that is, their meanings have acquired depreciatory connotations). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
When we use the term ‘discourses’ we refer to a heuristic device which enables us to talk about configurations of metaphors, analogies and connotations.
That word has strong sexual connotations.
It is also where the prudery of a later time has obviously crept in; the sculptures all seem lack-lustre and no sexual connotations are to be found here.
From this may sneak a peek at, different civilized connotation and difference.
I spoke, in that context, of the connotations of the posse, of the hunt.
The term is not new and it continues to suffer from the negative connotations of information overload. Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, part of the reason bisexuality gets a bad rap and why so few people openly identify as such, is because it’s associated with many negative cultural connotations.
I think the Campbells using the term riffraff (one word by the way) was unfortunate, because from context they mean criminals and the term riffraff has additional social class connotations that are inappropriate. New Haven Independent
Despite its high-tech connotations, synthetic fuel -- often dubbed "synfuel" for short within the industry -- has been around for decades. U.S. Military Launches
Looking at SocialMention see below, I see that as of October 20 the word "Erato" suddenly blows up, and its connotation of "Swedish singers" blows away all others, such as "classical record label". Spencer Critchley: How Viral Works: Tracing the Take-off of Erato's "Call Your Girlfriend"
Ostensibly neutral, each of these words has a positive connotation in the American political lexicon.
Together look up the derivation, the connotation, any prefixes and suffixes for the word, the root, the spelling rules that apply and the various meanings.
However, cheap carries with it the connotation of low quality and low performance.
On the other hand, his realistic painting bears explicit modern consciousness, differing from former realistic classicalism, both in the form and in the spirit connotation.
In modern usage of the term confit, the connotations of immersion, impregnation, flavoring, and slow, deliberate preparation survive, while the idea of preservation—and the special flavors that develop over weeks and months—has faded away. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
They care about grammar, syntax, usage, denotation, connotation, etymology.
Touching as a demonstration of affection is not taboo and does not carry a sexual connotation.
On the other hand, his realistic painting bears explicit modern consciousness, differing from former realistic classicalism, both in the form and in the spirit connotation.
In the Millian view, proper names have denotation, but not connotation.
This thesis aims at analyzing and interpreting the connotation of Betty Friedan's feminist thought, as well as its development and its meaning for women today.
On the other hand, the English word “provocative” (provocant/e” in French) has a much more positive connotation: “serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope” (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.) Agent provocateur, provoquer, provocant/e
Somehow the word healer has a negative connotation for me, associated with quackery or similar. On Healing
Although it originally had connotations of being gallant, in the context of the revolution the term cavalier would come to be used by the opponents of the king as a derogatory term for anyone who acted in an aristocratic or haughty manner. The Pawprints of History
A "finca" is perhaps the closest to the term farm in its European sense, a few acres including a few fields and some cattle. "hacienda" has an old tenure connotation, a certain prestige even if the "hacienda" lost most of its glamour and lands! 01/02/2005 - 01/09/2005
If one accepts this interpretation then the third-person form would not have the negative connotations defined so sharply by John Lyons.
‘Sanctity’ is a word with a religious connotation; it means ‘holy or religiously sacred.’
Sure, the nickname was probably assigned long before "muff" acquired its current connotations, but I assumed the Muffys would have all quietly dropped it long ago in favor of something a little less, um, gynecological - Buffy, or Cookie, or something. Muffy
These two things, the fact of being such a compound, and the fact of being a Kind, constitute the connotation of the name peroxide of iron. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
In these cases, the connotation is relied upon more than the denotation.
It carries with it connotations both of simplicity and naturalness as well as ill-breeding and clownishness.
Are we always aiming to flense the rich complexity of connotation and find the bare bones, to parse structures of signifiers into structures of signifieds? Archive 2009-07-01
Now, the GOP prefers the term "premium support" for voucher because "voucher" carries a negative connotation. Politifact Has Decided That A Totally True Thing Is The "Lie Of The Year," For Some Reason
Signorelli said her supervisor recently singled her out for delivering a spiritual reflection in the chapel that included the word “Lord” and had “a Christian connotation.” To improve decorum, hospice chaplain is not allowed to use the word “God” « Anglican Samizdat
They are likely to receive a diagnosis that carries strong negative connotations. Trauma and Recovery
In 1997, the word queer and all its consistently vague connotations had yet to be introduced into my lexicon. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
People want to be more generally known as Australian but not carry those connotations of ockerism.
A Don Knotts stereotype, he was the nation's youngest mayor in 1977 when Cleveland went belly-up because he wouldn't cut enough to balance the budget-thus giving the word "callow" a bad connotation …. Tom Roeser
But the term elite has not yet been plasticized into the absurd, and it still retains a certain connotation that can change depending on what we use it to modify. Bookslut
The word "enrichment" has positive connotations that quite frankly are not supported by science. Andrew Gunther: Rotten Eggs: HSUS and United Egg Producers Enter Agreement That Bird Cages Are Here to Stay
There are specific connotational disincentives to “liberal,” too. Can we find a better term for “Marginalized” People?
“Haze” often has the connotation of a coin having had a chemical applied to its surfaces in order to hide hairlines but on this coin, the haze comes from the way that it had been stored in the past; probably in an old coin cabinet or in a manila coin envelope. Analysis of a Mint State 1841-D Quarter Eagle by Doug Winter : Coin Collecting News
In spite of the negative connotations contained in the word there are good meanings that should be pondered.
I was apprehensive about the title because the word diva has a negative connotation. Make Your Life Prime Time
Basing on the definition and connotation of sustainable development, the third part puts forwards with the concept and connotation of sustainable development of house industry.
There's also, in some of his works, a sense of festination -- of explosive speed, though that doesn't have quite the same connotation as "to festinate" -- as though the work is hurrying to get through itself before devolving into violent noise. "...my music is also seductive, even spiritual"
Quebecois does also have more sovereigntist connotations. Matthew Yglesias » My Long-Awaited Revenge
A possible connotation of " home " is a place of warmth, comfort and affection ".
The term antiquarian tends to carry negative connotations nowadays, of someone with a naive or unsophisticated obsession with the past.
There's no doubt that "postmodernism" is now overloaded with the connotations of cultural change brought to it by the likes of Lyotard and Jameson, so much so that its utility in measuring the continuity of 20th/21st century fiction -- or its disruptions -- probably has been lost. Postmodernism
The word carries serious negative connotations that stretch back to the days of colonial Africa.
The power of the salute has particular connotations within football. Times, Sunday Times
Besides the religious connotation of the festival, it is seen as a time for revelry.
All drinkers begin socially, and this drinking is accompanied by a thousand social connotations such as I have described out of my own experience in the first part of this narrative. Chapter 39
I think Hume’s use of the word hosed has a homosexual connotation. Think Progress » Hume to Juan Williams: â€œSomeone Needs To Hose You Downâ€
The author criticizes conservatives for attaching a negative connotation of the word ‘liberal’ which he says actually symbolizes progress.
Despite the proliferation of attractive actresses, including the gorgeous Courtney Cox, adopting the moniker -- "Cougartown" is on its way -- the title clearly has some negative connotations. Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Don't Call Us 'Cougars'!
Consistent with Ficino's recommendations, a drawing by Carpaccio suggests that many (if not all) of the instruments represented in the studioli were likely performed therein, including those instruments bearing connotations of the "music of the spheres," such as the clavichord, organ, and lute. 246 Other instruments, like the cittern found at Gubbio, were as readily available in a tavern as in a princely studiolo. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
By using metaphors and similes you allow the readers to associate their own experiences, memories, or connotations.
When I hear your name mentioned, or think of you, up, at once, flashes that memory picture, and with it, it's connotation, & its connotation is "noble. Jack London's Literary Mother
He was not officially enthroned because he said he was not comfortable with the regal connotations - the first bishop to say so.
The word Druid is associated with the Gaelic word for oak, which also has the connotation of strength, solidity, and order. Where To Park Your Broomstick
The patricide plot in The Brothers Karamazov carries complicated philosophical and theological connotations.
What he actually tells them to do is 'recline', which carries connotations of a banquet. Dave Faulkner - life, spirituality, everything
He's trying to reconcile a new word connotation associated with being upset with something that he already understands as having to do with polar bears and snow. Turnstyle: Talking Sh*t about Sh*t My Students Write
(Mary's consent at the angel's annunciation tells us everything we need to know, except for most folks the connotation conjures up 'automobile company' or 'ex-nihilo' currency creation favored by political administrations who like to avoid concepts like "consent" not something young men desire to imitate: ancilla Domini heroism) Do you think "Consent is Sexy"?
The term ‘reactionary force’ has political overtones and historical connotations.
It obviously does carry some negative connotations, but people are increasingly prepared to buy there. Times, Sunday Times
In general, Said the critic and Ondaatje the writer coincide in interpreting the connotation of post-colonialism in their respective writings.
What did you find out from each about the term's primary meaning and its connotations? Exploring language (6th edn)
The term tenement at that time did not have the negative connotation that it has today. RutlandHerald.com
Leaving aside the religious connotations of the word, an idol in the realm of pop culture is someone that people look up to and engage with.
Consider This: Like Buddy, Bud’s image is formed by the literal meaning of the word buddy and by rural, working-class connotations. 5-Star Baby Name Advisor
Also, it favors the microscopic analysis over the synoptic view, which means that concepts, their meanings, and connotations are put in the spotlight, whereas the treatises in which they figure remain in the shadows.
In "satyriasis," with its connotation of pathology, he has found his true tone, which he extends in denouncing among homosexuals "a dreary sexual conformism ... rigidly defined and routinized sex moves in the theatrical costume of police or ranch wear [sic]. An Exchange on AIDS
They are likely to receive a diagnosis that carries strong negative connotations. Trauma and Recovery
Today the term rhetoric is generally used to refer only to the form of argumentation, often with the pejorative connotation that rhetoric is a means of obscuring the truth.
The word 'lady' has connotations of refinement and excessive femininity that some women find offensive.
He uses standard English word-formation devices in order to create new words with broad sensory connotations, such as foodist, bellyologist, and groggist to refer to people with uncontrolled appetites, dedicated drinkers of alcohol, and eaters. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3
But where Swedenborg uses a vaguely deterministic vocabulary to speak of creaturely activity (stating that bees and silkworms are "impelled" to behave in certain ways), Blake's Oothoon chooses to speak of such activity in terms of multiplicitous "joys" and "loves" (3: 6, 8, 11-12), terms carrying connotations of freedom rather than coercion or enslavement. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
The word nympho has a negative connotation for some. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
Changing the country's official English name back to Cambodia (which has been used by the US State Department all along) was intended as a symbolic move to distance the present government in Phnom Penh from the bitter connotations of the name Kampuchea, which westerners and overseas Khmer alike associate with the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
Just as she did in Port Elizabeth a few days ago, the self-proclaimed sexpot played hard at her game while obviously putting a sexual connotation to all the questions put to her.
For them, unlike many of us, father does not have good connotations. Christianity Today
The government by law and the legal system have experienced the calendar long evolution process, in its connotation's tendentiousness has the huge difference.
Everything becomes so darn connotational. Times, Sunday Times
It is a term of endearment and the source of all the current pussycat titles with their sexy connotations.
Woman that adventured were adventuresses, and the connotation was not nice. Chapter 6
And even then it was uncommon because of the profoundly negative connotations blindfolds carried for medieval and Renaissance audiences, who viewed them as emblems not of impartiality but of deception hence the early use of the word hoodwink as a noun, meaning a blindfold or hood. NYT > Home Page
Like his other performance work, the idea is elegantly simple and full of connotation.
The modern connotation of "galleon" comes partly from the Armada, and partly from a later era, the 17th century, when a galleon was the Spanish equivalent of an Indiaman. Archaic terminology in historical fiction

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