The fencing serves a practical purpose – in a ring, fighters would slip through the ropes while they were grappling – but the phrase cagefighting came to carry all the wrong connotations, largely because the UFC wanted it that way.
But actually, on occasions, they do manage to merge seemingly disparate influences: Hold Me Down, from their excellent self-titled debut album, sounds at the start like a lost Thom Bell/Linda Creed composition for symphonic soul maestros the Stylistics, before the singing starts and it goes all woozy like a Sly Stone slowie - "ballad" has the wrong romantic connotations.
John Cooper, QC, for Chambers, said it was wrong to read any terrorist connotation into the message.
I mastered the greetings, which change according to the time of day; a few adjectives (though I got into trouble with oishii delicious which may have a lewd connotation in the wrong context); and I learned to count.
Chinua Achebe, among other scholars, challenged this because of its negative connotations and possible wrong definition.
Whereas the show's Jon Snow (Kit Harington) is dubbed a "Bastard" on account of his troubled parentage, in Bolton's case the appellation comes with the more pejorative, Anglo-Saxon connotations: he really is a wrong 'un.
The superhero genre – the reigning blockbuster model, and one into which Skull Island could easily be categorised – has long had fascist connotations, but it would be wrong to believe that authoritarian sentiments are unavoidable in these movies.
According to Kripke, Mill was right about proper names but wrong about kinds; Millianism Mill's denotation-without-connotation view is right for both sorts of term.
"The word 'cleanse' has a negative connotation that there was something really wrong being done.
