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  • The brand now has a negative connotation.†
  • Wiccans still use the term "witch;" though it as a negative connotation to most people.†
  • By word and sound, to Jerry, "Mister Haggin" had the same connotation that "God" has to God-worshipping humans.†  (source)
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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
  • 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
  • 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)
    connotation = a suggested idea or feeling that goes beyond something's primary meaning
  • 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)
    connotations = suggested ideas or feelings that goes beyond something's primary meaning
  • "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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
    connotations = suggested ideas or feelings that goes beyond something's primary meaning
  • 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)
    connotation = a suggested idea or feeling that goes beyond something's primary meaning
  • 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)
    connotations = suggested ideas or feelings that goes beyond something's primary meaning
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