Example sentences for: connotes

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

  • This connotes unequal power, a no-no among rights-based liberals and feminists.

  • gingerly Neither denotes nor connotes spice or snap or red hair, rather just their opposites: cautious, careful, wary.

  • Agringado is a particularly strong term in comparison to americanizado, because the word gringo connotes a strong negative image of a North American.

  • Orwell constructed an alternative future in his vision of the totalitarian state, Nineteen Eighty-Four . The work has given English a small lode of unpleasantries: the title itself connotes a society marked by government terror and propaganda destroying the public's consciousness of reality (the OED Supplement also accepts 1984 and 1984-ish as adjective forms); that government's official language, Newspeak , now indicates the propagandistic or ambiguous language of, among others, politicians, bureaucrats, and broadcasters (“revenue enhancement” for “tax increase,” etc.); the twisting of minds to the capacity to accept the validity of utterly contradictory opinions or beliefs, or double-think ; the book's head of state, Big Brother , implies an apparently benevolent, but really ruthless, omnipotent, and omniscient state authority.

  • A better English match than `young woman' for almah is `maiden,' which, while it narrowly means only `young woman,' certainly connotes virginity.


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