Sentence examples for loaded connotation from inspiring English sources

The use of the word "recruit" by Mr. Ashcroft also had a loaded connotation in context, since it's common for those on the religious right who argue (as Mr. Ashcroft does) that sexual orientation is a choice to accuse homosexuals of "recruiting" the young.

The word 'cult' is explosive, loaded with connotations of brainwashing, lunatics, and mass suicide -- not exactly an ideal marketing strategy.

However, Ryden transcends the initial Surrealists' strategies by consciously choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation.

The terms 'voluntourism' and 'medical tourism' can both be seen as pejorative and normatively loaded given the connotation that each involves a frivolous, touristic element.

The word is so loaded with baleful connotations that it tends to empurple any surrounding prose.

That is the widely accepted definition of a voucher, yet Mr. Bush declines to use the word, suggesting that he considers it loaded with bad connotations.

The word "fairness" is loaded with ethical connotations, Papini says, and researchers will need additional evidence and more rigorous controls to demonstrate that dogs possess the sophisticated sense of social justice that humans associate with fairness.

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.

Even the term used obesity carries a controversial definition; the word "obese" is loaded with negative connotations.

The word 'homophobic' comes loaded with very negative connotations but it is a word with which the Church will forever be justifiably saddled if it continues to oppose advances like equal marriage, as it so strenuously does either directly or through politicians speaking on its behalf.

"Disrespectful" is one of those words that is loaded with racial and class connotations that many people consider offensive.