Sample Sentences forconnotation (editor-reviewed)
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While “cheap” can simply mean inexpensive, it sometimes has a negative connotation, implying poor quality.connotation = a suggested idea or feeling that goes beyond something's primary meaning
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The word "home" often carries a warm connotation of comfort and security.
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We had to fight the connotations that come with hip-hop, like gangs, shootings and drugs. People don't see what a vibrant life force there is in hip-hop. (source)connotations = a suggested ideas or feelings that go beyond something's primary meaning
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Prosperity. To me the word has a negative connotation. Abnegation uses it to describe self-indulgence. (source)connotation = a suggested idea or feeling that goes beyond something's primary meaning
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The men referred to him by a host of nicknames, including the Animal, the Big Flag, Little Napoleon, and, most often, the Bird, a name chosen because it carried no negative connotation that could get the POWs beaten. (source)
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for "father" was not so much obscene as—with its connotation of something at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of child-bearing—merely gross, (source)
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"Your partner." "Don't call him that," I said. "'Partner' has a positive connotation." (source)connotation = a suggested idea or feeling that goes beyond something's primary meaning
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I told you that was too primitive a word, without the correct connotations. (source)connotations = suggested ideas or feelings that goes beyond something's primary meaning
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The word "Catholic" obviously had a negative connotation for Pastor Falk. (source)connotation = a suggested idea or feeling that goes beyond something's primary meaning
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In Lareau's words, the middle-class children learn a sense of "entitlement." That word, of course, has negative connotations these days. But Lareau means it in the best sense of the term: "They acted as though they had a right to pursue their own individual preferences and to actively manage interactions in institutional settings." (source)connotations = suggested ideas or feelings that goes beyond something's primary meaning
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"Good work," added the Count of Connotation.† (source)
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This kind of cross carried none of the Christian connotations of crucifixion associated with the longer-stemmed Latin Cross, originated by Romans as a torture device. (source)
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They did not yet realize that such a blow had no more moral connotation than a nudge or a kick from an animal.† (source)
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I originally called it "The Best Failure Award," but failure has so many negative connotations that students couldn't get past the word itself. (source)
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But the guy had no sense of connotation in bed.† (source)
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I promptly got hung up on what it meant in the literal sense (a blind alley in British/Irish English is a dead-end street, which has another set of connotations, some related and some not), and missed entirely what it "really" meant. (source)
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