Example sentences for: connoting

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

  • In the late 19 th century, beauty, connoting as it did individual service and the laying on of hands, was considered a trade too vulgar for respectable people.

  • Rather like the more recent scungy which, after years of use in Scots and Irish for a sly or vicious person, a sponger, suddenly found itself in vogue as a word connoting the general sordidness of modern youth.

  • Every expressive shape or shiny streak in a coat and suit bore the dread suggestion of effeminacy, connoting both a lack of integrity and an unbridled vanity felt to be unavoidable in women, but criminal, even thuggish, in men.

  • The circonflexe , on the other hand, is really a sign of orthography , not pronunciation, being a reminder of a dropped s—it is usually there for historical reasons but connoting a reason which has long since ceased to make sense and which modern French speakers have probably been blithely unaware of.


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