connotation
Example Sentences
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While taking on more than $100,000 in debt can have a negative connotation, at the time it may have seemed like a sound financial decision.
From MarketWatch
He also added that he downloaded the app quickly after its release, fearing it would be banned because of the negative connotations around it.
From BBC
While park runs, trail runs and marathons boom in popularity among the masses, cross-country appetite from the general public is almost entirely absent, likely influenced by those negative schoolday connotations.
From BBC
Nearly everyone Davies interviewed abroad presumed Trader Joe’s has liberal connotations—though she’s learned this doesn’t necessarily track in the U.S. itself.
A few years ago, the university renamed what was formerly its Oriental Institute, partly to avoid the “pejorative connotations” of the word “oriental.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
