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 carpetbaggers' reputation has improved, but the word's negative connotations have spread to cover all ambitious newcomers.
Miniskirts withdrew from such sweaty connotations, emphasizing instead their harmony with classic jackets.
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.
I think the reason "there you go" has no such unpleasant connotations is that it describes, in the retail context, the state in which the customer finds him- or herself after successful completion of the purchase.
Terms such as toilet and lavatory have, like privy , undergone pejoration over the years (that is, their meanings have acquired depreciatory connotations).
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