connotation

But that has never struck me as terribly apt or helpful, despite its obviously negative connotation.

In case the connotation is lost, “Theater Kid” is not a good thing here.

“Linda Perry-style,” of course, carries with it a history and a very specific connotation.

Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield examines the negative connotation of the phrase and turns it into an affirmation.

It has this crazy negative connotation that I never understood.

To fix the connotation of a concrete name, or the denotation of the corresponding abstract, is to define the name.

Why, I should say it means 'skilful, clever,' and it carries with it the connotation of 'novel.'

They had been diverted from their hereditary connotation to signify impressions for which Nature did not intend them.

This term one may accept as technically correct without necessarily accepting the sinister connotation imputed to it by labor.

The specific difference is that which must be added to the connotation of the genus to complete the connotation of the species.