connotative

Example Sentences

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Most intriguingly, a handful of female-led releases hitting theaters throughout the holiday movie season zoom in on characters who source their fortitude in traits that are connotatively feminine.

From Los Angeles Times

“Instead of using words to juxtapose education levels, we used sounds that are connotative of variations in culture and education level.”

From Washington Times

Litspam text, along with early comment spam and the strange spam blogs described in the next section, is the expression of an entirely different intentionality without the connotative structure produced by a human writer.

From Scientific American

The spiritual chill, which always accompanies it—that sinister quality so connotative of congregations of evil spirits—he again 93 observed was completely lacking.

From Project Gutenberg

You might suggest a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but that forsakes the connotative power of language.

From The Guardian