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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