Sentence examples for connotations in the from inspiring English sources

What word has really negative connotations in the real world?

This has un-Californian connotations in the province.

That term may have negative connotations in the United States, particularly after the last decade of debt excess.

Labels like obsessive-compulsive disorder have connotations in the wider culture and for an individual's self-perception.

"White has connotations in the west of purity and virtue, this idea of being the good guy," said Steele.

The Bush administration dropped its references to "fedayeen" last week when it was reminded that the word has heroic connotations in the Arabic-speaking world, and began to refer to the militia fighters as "terrorists" or "thugs" instead.

But, whereas in America heavy metal has distinctly working class connotations, in India the music is accessible only to the privileged few.

The term craze also has a special connotation in the financial world.

There was another connotation in the repertory choice, one that had more to do with context.

Perhaps no idea offered a more subversive connotation in the ancient world, where aristocratic empires dominated almost every area of cultivated land.

Of course, there is a slight sexual connotation in the magazine's title, as in the suggestive phrase "to get lucky".