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The upshot is that demands to cut welfare benefits (the very phrase reeks of ideological connotations) are more common than demands to raise them.

In Berlin, where National Socialist connotations are more troubling, variations on the hairstyle have become common in fashionable quarters of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg, said Annika von Taube, the editor in chief of Sleek, an art and fashion magazine there.

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The connotation is more like "sink estate", with the suggestion of high levels of immigration, unemployment and crime.

Their emotional connotation is more accurately identified than that of speech prosody [46].

Trump likely heard the word translated as "bright" or "brilliant", though its connotations are often more pejorative than not: bright in the sense of glaring and gaudy, brilliant in the sense of dazzling light.

The other connotation, which is more for the lawyers in the audience, is positive in the sense of — not natural law, not God-given law — but positive law in the sense that it's a law that is tractable, it's earthly, it can be understood.

Despite the decorous connotations, the teas were more akin to spa treatments than to etiquette lessons.

"It is likely that leadership was not informed of the potential for negative connotations because individuals were more familiar with the song "Let the bodies hit the floor" than the name of the band that performed it or its past history with detainees," U.S. Southern Command spokeswoman Col. Lisa Garcia said in an emailed statement.

Clickbait seems to be a catch-all for that skill and has very negative connotations, but the reality is more nuanced and the ability to write something enticing on Twitter to pique someone's interest is a real art," said Mr Radcliffe.

Consider the connotation of Superwoman, who is more harried than hectic, not something I'd want for myself or for my girl.

It actually looks more like a mattress pad, but, either way, its bedroomy connotations are obvious.

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