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Example sentences for: connotations

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As several readers pointed out to me, "Indian country" is a common phrase in the West and has no derogatory connotations.
ROUNDABOUT with its fairground connotations has superseded CIRCUS but ZEBRAS, PANDAS, and PELICANS still have their CROSSINGS.
In the last analysis, it makes little difference how sterile, clinical, or innocuous the words selected might be, for the terminology attracts adverse connotations owing to many factors, not the least of which is prejudice.
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.
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.