Without technically altering the definition, shifts in usage can give a word a new connotation.
How about having a piece that has some political connotation or is provocative to look at?
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And that has a real negative connotation to, you know, a lot of Americans.
Now, it has this strident connotation, you know, a little bit man-hating maybe or whatever.
Throw everything you know about branding, names, emotion, connotation, and communication out the window.
But many entrepreneurs try to avoid being a salesperson, as it still has a bad connotation.
Mr. TRAINOR: I think there is a sort of negative connotation with being a great bar band.
In the same vein, distortions of language can detach associated words from one another to change connotation.
The word has a negative connotation: criminal, shady, basically no good and so does its origin.
After all, it has the connotation of weakness, indecisiveness, and incompetence, thanks in large part to societal taboos.
So while 'temporary' or 'contract worker' may have a certain reputation or connotation, we take them very seriously.
The word "snob, " notes Gessen, has a slightly different connotation in Russian--the only language in which the magazine is printed.
The word "reconstruction" carries a negative connotation, making the term "rejuvenation" a more appropriate description for our night in New Orleans.
The phrase market timing tends to have a negative connotation, so the investment industry covers it up by calling it other names.
"The word 'hacker' has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers, " he wrote.
"'Action' puts a bad connotation out there, " Mr. Eastwood told Mr. Aronofsky.
In China, individualism is not encouraged and sometimes has a negative connotation.
But will this negative connotation put the fast-food chain out of business?
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This is the policy now being followed, although many citizens of Israel deride the racist connotation of prescribing permanent second-class status for the Palestinians.
It's almost as if Microsoft realized "fans on a tablet" would have a negative connotation and went out of its way to make them discreet.
" 'Swine flu' gives a connotation that really it shouldn't have, and makes people wonder about eating pork, " said Minnesota Health Commissioner Dr. Sanne Magnan.
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He has pledged to carry on as FIA president, said any "Nazi connotation" was "entirely false" and pledged to take legal action against the newspaper.
Today success is synonymous with celebrating at the finish line, holding the trophy or the check, while achievement has more of a work and effort connotation.
Stock buybacks give executives more flexibility since there is no negative connotation associated with repurchasing fewer shares than allowed by the announced size of the program.
If the Gateses and Buffett sign up most of the 1, 226 global billionaires that Forbes has identified, perhaps entrepreneurial philanthropy will carry the same all-American connotation.
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How many people who are dreaming up names violently reject choices based on their emotional reaction not to the sound of the name but to the connotation?
The malign connotation would be that projects like FutureGen are cynical illusions designed to delay policies like a fossil fuels tax or public investments in energy efficiency and renewables.
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The advertisement was "far from any military connotation, and is part of the national government policies towards the Malvinas, to continue to claim sovereignty by peaceful means, " the article said.
In his principal address, Professor Devetak said that problems of co-operation and development in the Mediterranean are intermingled with religious fundamentalism and cultural misperceptions: "ethnic or religious connotation is given to problems that have nothing to do with ethnicity or religion".
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