'connote' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb, meaning "to suggest a feeling or meaning in addition to the literal meaning of a word or phrase." For example: "The word 'peace' connotes a sense of calm and tranquility."
But it can be ameliorated and it has an upside.The disorder in Bradford a decade ago was blamed by some on multiculturalism, a concept that, among its detractors, has come to connote tolerating or even encouraging separateness (see article).
Modern-day Hokkaido (literally, the way to the northern seas) was then known as Ezo, whose written characters connote wildness and barbarity.
Just as "pacification" once meant its opposite, so the "tiny minority" is coming to connote a big worry.Consider some facts about the bottle.
Hostility used to connote racial prejudice, but no longer.
His reluctance to force Labour out of its "comfort zone", as allies of his more Blairite brother put it, might connote weakness as much as authentically left-wing convictions.One of those allies, the former spin doctor Alastair Campbell, once predicted Mr Miliband would make Labour "feel good about losing".
The influence of the horse is expressed in the English language in such terms as and (coming from the Latin, "horseman"), which connote honor, respect, good manners, and straightforwardness.
Arroyo and (dry) wash connote ephemeral streams or their resultant channels.
Some resistance to till-less agriculture and its variations has come from machinery manufacturers and from farmers themselves, to many of whom the debris-laden fields required by the procedure connote inferior farming.
But even to these persons, and certainly to many others, the term is often a dirty one tending to connote such things as the discredited atrocity stories and deceptively stated war aims of World Wars I and II, the operations of the Nazis' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, and the broken campaign promises of a thousand politicians.
In Eastern Christianity, the theologian St. John of Damascus popularized the term orthodoxy (literally "correct views") to connote the sum of Christian truth.
It is unfortunate that the word park has come to connote almost exclusively the "romantic" style park or English garden of the 19th century.
