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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)
  • 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)
  • 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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  • The word risk is a negative word in their vocabulary — it does not connote opportunity or excitement but rather the chance to waste money and time.†  (source)
  • It was the only time I'd ever heard someone ask, "Can you grab me the spoon?" as opposed to "a spoon," which at least connoted there was more than one.†  (source)
  • Another word with approximately the same meaning, pity (French, pitie; Italian, pieta; etc.), connotes a certain condescension towards the sufferer.†  (source)
  • There was a screen, connoting dying, around Johnny's bed.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • If you like granite, you might like the house; but even if you don't, "granite" certainly doesn't connote a fixer-upper.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Her eyes were set close together and her lips had the thinness that connotes a narrow mind and a mean spirit.†  (source)
  • There had been a germ of truth in his declaration to Gerty Farish that he had never wanted to marry a "nice" girl: the adjective connoting, in his cousin's vocabulary, certain utilitarian qualities which are apt to preclude the luxury of charm.†  (source)
  • 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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