Example sentences for: connotation

How can you use “connotation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I can conclude only that that communicative intention is used to mean both denotation and connotation: but if that is so, then it would seem that the contrast implicit in euphemism is lost.

  • Not only does the word itself sound more fluid, but I also think the connotation it has is more appropriate to the meaning Slate intends.

  • To start, consider the expression to make sexual advances . Clearly the term has a formal (and legalistic) connotation which is hardly neutral.

  • The terms used here are not immediately transparent: if by communicative intention is meant `denotative purpose, the information the speaker wishes to convey,' unless one views communication in the broadest way, it would seem to me that the definition confuses denotation with connotation; that is to say, whether an expression is euphemistic, neutral, or taboo is a matter of connotation, and the fact that a speaker avoids shit for defecate, move one's bowels , etc., is purely a connotative matter: denotatively (communicatively?)

  • The connotation of gifted artistic performance, however, might stem from the gypsy culture in Andalusia whose dialect, caló , has words like duquende (possibly from the Russian dook ) meaning `spirit or ghost,' and duquendio , meaning `maestro.


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