Words similar to connotations
Example sentences for: connotations
How can you use “connotations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The dispreferred expression may be taboo, fearsome, distasteful, or for some other reason have too many negative connotations to felicitously execute Speaker's particular communicative intention on a given occasion.
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.
He uses standard English word-formation devices in order to create new words with broad sensory connotations, such as foodist, bellyologist , and groggist to refer to people with uncontrolled appetites, dedicated drinkers of alcohol, and eaters.
The words proscribed by the old production codes were swearing or profanity in the true sense, with purely spiritual connotations in their reference to the Deity.
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