The meaning of that adjective is "unbalanced," which carries the wrong connotation; besides, the term has been taken over by the fashion industry to describe dresses with one side of the hem barely covering the hip and the other side offering a flash of ankle.
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.
The language of mental models and misconceptions have been gradually avoided by the education community due to the connotation of students being "stuck" in a particular way of thinking, the negative framing of students being wrong, or the connotation of a mental model being long-lasting and invariant.
Chinua Achebe, among other scholars, challenged this because of its negative connotations and possible wrong definition.
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.
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.
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.
It'd be unfair to call Halo: Reach fanservice, since that word has a negative connotation to it, as if there's something wrong with giving the people what they want.
