Sentence examples for nasty connotation from inspiring English sources
"May Day had a nasty connotation and then it more or less migrated to Europe.
The local media had branded him a capitalist, a label that had decidedly nasty connotations at the time.
The editor of our environment website explains: "The former has nasty connotations with Holocaust denial and tends to polarise debate.
Damning Miliband with porcine satire seems – like the Daily Mail's exposé of his "Britain-hating" Jewish émigré father – to radiate some nasty connotations.
Ever since the financial crisis, James Owen Weatherall writes in his new book, "The Physics of Wall Street," "words like 'quant,'derivativeve' and 'model' have taken on some nasty connotations".
The word used most often in this book is careerist, carrying all those nasty connotations of excessive ambition and self-aggrandisement.
If the future of words like social and socialize belongs in the hands of techno-utopians, then that could go a long way in cleansing those words of any nasty political connotations.
Ungeziefer is also used informally as the equivalent of "bug," though the connotation is "dirty, nasty bug" — you wouldn't apply the word to cute, helpful creatures like ladybugs.
"Basement has an ugly connotation".
The proper connotation is Joe Sixpack.
