Sentence examples for unfortunate connotations from inspiring English sources

Someone mentioned the fact that the grenade shape might bring up unfortunate connotations of war.

However, during the Nazi era those lyrics took on unfortunate connotations.

The phrase has unfortunate connotations as the former Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith, promised he was "turning up the volume" shortly before quitting.

We and our capitals, through the autumn of 2003, increasingly came to see the advantage of releasing Iraq and the coalition from the status of "occupation" with all that word's unfortunate connotations.

Big School also stars Steve Speirs – who one might remember from Extras as the dour, clingy Welsh man who pleaded with Ricky Gervais to come over and watch Vera Drake – playing Mr Barber, a poor sap suffering from en masse racism due to his Welshness and a name with unfortunate connotations of sheep.

Filmed during the First World War, the silent footage features a young Canadian soldier called Dick – a name that seemingly had no unfortunate connotations back then – who is on leave in London where nicely dressed young women approach him, one after another.

It would be easy to shrug it off as an unfortunate connotation of an innocent use of "place", but like the use of "spook" in Philip Roth's "The Human Stain", it wasn't coincidence at all.

He conceded that the word ceasefire had "an unfortunate connotation in the Syrian context" because some had been achieved by government sieges or starvation so that residents faced no alternative.

Second, the term rigged has an unfortunate connotation of illegitimacy, as in the terms rigged election or rigged roulette table, and this connotation must be dismissed as prejudicial.

The term "rhetoric" has acquired an unfortunate connotation, but the synonymous phrase "effective communication" may be used for a project the academic community must actively engage in as a part of their place in the division of intellectual labor.

(For an introduction to the logic of quantifiers and bound variables, the basics of which are presupposed in this article, see Shapiro (2013).) Talk of "commitment" has an unfortunate connotation: it applies more naturally to persons than to theories.