Quotes by category:Connotation

Compromise has a negative connotation. by Abdolkarim Soroush

Compromise has a negative connotation.

Abdolkarim Soroush

connotation compromise negative

While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

Charles M. Blow

bisexual connotation use

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

connotation culture negative

Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.

connotation rapper people

Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.

connotation conservative people

The word diva has a negative connotation. by Glenn Close

The word diva has a negative connotation.

connotation negative

When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.

connotation intellectual reality

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

Jorge Luis Borges

rivalry connotation vocabulary

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Laura Kightlinger

connotation feminist negative

Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

Mary Tyler Moore

adolescence connotation negative

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

connotation careers people

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impract... by Simon Blackburn

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

Simon Blackburn

connotation unfortunate philosophy

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

rely sentences connotation