connotative
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Include only what was seen and heard, with no subjective interpretation or connotative language, and as few drawn conclusions as possible.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2019
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 • Jun. 19, 2013
You might suggest a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but that forsakes the connotative power of language.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2011
Vicki Hamer University of Northern Colorado Greeley, Colo Contrary to those people who decry the additional connotative meaning of words, I see the "loaded" quality in words as one of the great beauties of language.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Note in the final result how much less connotative, how much more commonplace the dialogue probably is.
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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Reading: Informational - Middle School
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Reading: Literature - Middle School
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