Sentence examples for connotation to be from inspiring English sources

I don't want the connotation to be that every baseball player is on steroids.

There's a negative connotation to being argumentative, and I actually spent quite a while looking for a more palatable word to describe this trait.

Turing disavowed any interest in terminology, saying that even "Can machines think?" is too loaded with spurious connotations to be meaningful; but he proposed to replace all such questions with a specific operational test, which has become known as the Turing test.

"You have these negative connotations to being ambitious," she said.

One participant who completed the English language version indicated that the wording was suggestive and intoned that the individual had colon cancer, which was a culturally sensitive issue for those who believed there were connotations to being diagnosed.

After all, "feminine" is not a synonym for "heterosexual," and this connotation needs to be broken down and reviewed.

It is hard to import the worship of a goddess from another culture: religious associations and connotations have to be learned, imagined or intuited when the deep symbolic meanings embedded in the native culture are not available.

"I think that there is a real negative connotation to not being a purist academically, and that the minute you delve into the commercial world, you've become a second-class citizen," he says.

The problem is solved when we establish the identification of different groups without including a negative connotation to what being different means to someone else.

"I doubt that its connotations are going to be so obvious to English, German, Japanese or Chinese speakers," he said.

Our findings support the idea that comity might be an emerging principle of procedural law, though agreement on its exact meaning— or unequivocal choices among its many connotations— still tends to be uncommon.