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Example sentences for: connotation
How can you use “connotation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The connotation is of Cold War provenance and was given broad currency in large part through the novels of John Le Carré, whose longtime protagonist, the spy master George Smiley, has pursued moles within British intelligence.
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.
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.
To start, consider the expression to make sexual advances . Clearly the term has a formal (and legalistic) connotation which is hardly neutral.
If not rhetorical, the same question would have no such conspiratorial connotation.
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