Sentence examples for connotation that from inspiring English sources

Strategy has yet another martial connotation that can be detrimental in a business context.

This verb carries a pejorative connotation that makes me think of Iago in Othello.

Ah, but the word has a connotation that makes politicians shudder: it resonates as merely "nominal; in name only".

But in France, where it also refers to breeds of domesticated animals, it carries an additional negative connotation that is linked to the country's history.

"I'd be very concerned that there is a negative connotation that says it's a parent's fault that they are amplifying ADHD symptoms," she says.

Moreover, Poles, especially urban-dwellers, want Poland to be associated with that exclusive club dubbed "the west" with the connotation that brings of development and advanced societies.

In other words, what some might paint as a "rejection" of marriage, and the moral connotation that comes with that interpretation, is more accurately a far more practical problem.

"But when they are put in a unnatural position, when there clearly is a sexual connotation, that's going too far, in my opinion.

Also "pity" often carries, in everyday English, a negative connotation that is not intended in Horkheimer's thought.

Spirituality often carries connotations that set it apart from piety.

"Happenings" have pop connotations that conjure up 1960s youth culture and hippies in public, joyful rebellion.