connotation

Locals referred to them as Johnnies, a nickname that carries unsavoury connotations.

"I know it has bad connotations on the men's side with greed and all those things, but in women's football it's a necessity until we have decent commercial resources available."

The term carries an intensely pejorative connotation in the group and speaks to the imbalance of power between the singer and his fawning entourage.

“For young children, to whom this and the other storybooks are targeted, such celebration is liable to be processed as having moral connotations,” Alito wrote.

"Viruses understandably evoke a bad connotation because we know all the harm associated with viruses," Cadwell said.