Example sentences for: connotations

How can you use “connotations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • an expression with connotations that are offensive either about the denotatum or to the audience, or both, and it is substituted for a neutral or euphemistic expression for just that reason.

  • Exempted from Novak's observation might be executives at Reebok, who last year professed to have been unaware of connotations associated with the name they gave to a new women's running shoe: "Incubus."

  • His insights on sociobiology, minus the inflammatory connotations, have become widely accepted in new fields such as behavioral ecology and evolutionary psychology.

  • And even nowier, it means Dutch auction, which has dismal connotations, but so does everything with a Netherlandish prefix--Dutch treat, Dutch courage, Dutch Schultz.

  • Whatever else may be said about them, both "Talmudic" and "Jesuitical" carry connotations of great learning and meticulous attention to argument.


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