Sentence examples for connotation from from inspiring English sources

The word "hacker" has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers.

(The word that the women used, "importuner," ranges in connotation from bugging someone to really disturbing her. Whatever the level of offense, the behavior is clearly unwanted).

"I did not take a racial connotation from Mr. Wilson's remarks," said Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the majority leader, who introduced the resolution.

Blindness removes the "male" connotation from traits and behaviors like assertiveness, competitiveness, and risk taking, which are necessary to get ahead at work.

Everything in this frame has a certain connotation, from the architectural importance of Queen's House in the centre, to the imperial significance of the Cutty Sark tea clipper in the distance; further away, Canary Wharf symbolises the changing economic fortunes of the city.

"Removing of weeds" takes a very different connotation from ordinary farming.

Nourishment carries connotations, from infancy, that make stopping it feel different from rejecting medical machinery.

"They lift you up as a human, you could never draw any negative connotations from them.

This has important connotations from a climate change perspective in relation to future plant distribution.

Viewing addiction as a disease and likening it to other chronic diseases can help remove the negative connotations from the illness.

And Enigmatist's first name is itself rich in connotations, from antipodean slang for a policeman to a 19th-century racist term for a Chinese person.