Sentence examples for ambiguous connotations from inspiring English sources

Asked about the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Putin again described Trump as a "flamboyant" or "colorful" man, using a Russian word – "яркий" – that can be translated with ambiguous connotations, from gaudy to striking to dazzling.

I tried hard to push the word Conradian from my mind, for I understood it to be imbued with all kinds of ambiguous connotations, but truly this was a Conradian world that I was entering.

Jump forward 300 years, though, to the battered post-war England of the 1950s, and the saturnine insurrectionary had taken on more ambiguous connotations.

The six episodes of The Club of Queer Trades (a title that, in this less innocent century of ours, would carry a rather ambiguous connotation) are not, strictly, detective stories, and they are certainly not mini-whodunnits.

Even the self-designation gnostic is problematic, since it is attested for only some of the traditions conventionally treated as gnostic and its connotations are ambiguous.

The ways by which the majority of the teachers replied (to questions for which they had to use natural selection without its being suggested), refer us back to the aforementioned ambiguous, vague, and unclear explanations mixed with teleological connotations in the textbooks, which, notably, are the only ones published and made available to teachers.

It was chosen to be purposefully more ambiguous than a specific, existing creature, and to have mythical connotations.

The word "abduction" usually has very negative connotations, but you see what happens to your heroine, Jane, in slightly more ambiguous terms, don't you?

Its title had two connotations.

And remember, connotations evolve.

Not very nice connotations.