Sample Sentences forconnotes (auto-selected)
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You mustn't hum when you eat-not that animals do-for it connotes a certain primitive idiocy.† (source)
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Nor do either of those terms connote the courage people in such pains exemplify, which is why I'd ask you to frame your mental health around a word other than crazy.† (source)
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The man before them was noble in appearance, and the shadows played across the planes of his face in a way that made their angles harden; his aspect connoted dignity.† (source)
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Bombardier Skidoo was written on the side of the engine cowling facing him in black letters which had been raked backward, presumably to connote speed.† (source)
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Another word with approximately the same meaning, pity (French, pitie; Italian, pieta; etc.), connotes a certain condescension towards the sufferer.† (source)
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His voice was precise and monotonous; it connoted safety.† (source)
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But I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine.† (source)
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Acapulco connoted deep-sea fishing, casinos, anxious rich women; and sierra madre meant gold, meant Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a movie he had seen eight times.† (source)
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Her eyes were set close together and her lips had the thinness that connotes a narrow mind and a mean spirit.† (source)
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There was a screen, connoting dying, around Johnny's bed.† (source)
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The turbulent voices, even Guy Pollock being connotative beside her, were nothing.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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If you like granite, you might like the house; but even if you don't, "granite" certainly doesn't connote a fixer-upper.† (source)
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Nobody as yet had really acknowledged to himself what the disease connoted.† (source)
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It is clear from the above that a main part of Homer's design has been to tell a massive tale, to expand his main theme, throwing up unexpected diversions, obstacles, and side-stories until his account of the "Anger of Achilles" takes on all the weight and scope and dense detail that the word "epic" connotes.† (source)
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He misliked the very word "interesting," connoting it with wasted energy and even with morbidity.† (source)
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emblems of a past that had sunk down and well-nigh vanished under the earth, that lay by the water's edge now, like an idler taking the air, yet giving me strong food for thought, making the name of Combray connote to me not the little town of to-day only, but an historic city vastly different, seizing and holding my imagination by the remote, incomprehensible features which it half-concealed beneath a spangled veil of buttercups.† (source)
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