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Example sentences for: connotations
How can you use “connotations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In all fairness, many drafters of legal documents are probably just after terms without strongly positive or negative connotations.
It is probably a characteristic of humanity's eternal upward struggle that good enough is never good enough, and neutral terms like ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, run-of-the-mill , and indifferent tend to take on negative connotations.
The carpetbaggers' reputation has improved, but the word's negative connotations have spread to cover all ambitious newcomers.
Still others were given by neighboring tribes and, sometimes, even when the literal sense is known the connotations are unclear: for example, the Dakota name for the Iowa (Ayuhwa) Sleepy Ones; the Blackfoot name for the Kainah , a division of the Blackfoot, (Ah-kai-nah) Many Chiefs.
But the word has its own negative connotations.
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