(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
(2) At least five terms which connote power of muscular performances are used today.
(3) With respect to the relative case fatality rates, the complements of the relative survival rates, the eight-year rate of 19 percent for the BCDDP versus that of 35 percent for SEER connotes 46 percent fewer women dying in the BCDDP group.
(4) Such words, spoken by a German politician, have the worst possible connotations for Poles.
(5) Such plants have been used for many centuries for the pungency and flavoring value, for their medicinal properties, and, in some parts of the world, their use also has religious connotations.
(6) Using the example of the stress concept, it is suggested that it is a 'key word' with denotative and connotative meanings accessible to professional and laymen, contributing to explore the 'gray zone' between 'health' and 'disease' by linking psychological, social and biological determinants of 'well-being' and 'discomfort'.
(7) So there were no gender connotations whatsoever in the choice?
(8) Certainly, "celebrity", even though it's craved by many, has negative connotations.
(9) It now connotes much more than an economic strategy, evoking, as the phrase “winter of discontent” did for so many years, a much broader sense of unease.
(10) Two main techniques are the study of longitudinal data (where time-spaced studies on the same population are available) and of age-ranked, cross-sectional data (where the lack of declining stature with age connotes the absence of a secular trens).
(11) Descriptive, stipulative, and connotative definitions of role strain are derived, and necessary and relevant properties are proposed.
(12) Because its histologic morphology bears a striking resemblance to Brunn's nests and because the term papilloma of the urinary bladder connotes potential malignant change, we propose the designation brunnian adenoma.
(13) One of the reasons that mindfulness is really catching on is that it can be delivered in a way that is entirely secular, stripped of any religious connotations, making it entirely acceptable to the wider population.
(14) When grouped into the 6 key words, the opinions uncovered a vast somatic field, confusion couched in metonymic figures of speech, such as using the term "woman" for "mental patient," moral, genital and sexual connotations.
(15) Elevated plasma levels of CEA do not necessarily connote elevated tumor tissue levels of CEA, and conversely, normal plasma levels of CEA do not necessarily mean low levels of tumor CEA.
(16) The data obtained in the investigation indicate that the term has acquired a specific connotation within the international nursing context and that specific defined attributes distinguishes it from the broad and general definition found in standard dictionaries.
(17) Patients expecting to receive psychotropic drug gave significantly more often positive emotional connotations about the presumed modes of action of these drugs than patients without such an expectation.
(18) Traditions and customs related to the consumption of alcohol still have a strong positive connotation in France.
(19) In the introduction the author submits association, connotations, and definitions of basic ethical terms, along with a classification of ethics.
(20) It’s obviously got some racial connotations to it, we’ve got our head in the sand and we don’t think it does.
Scoundrel
Definition:
(n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue.
(a.) Low; base; mean; unprincipled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cutts-McKay said he regretted ever agreeing to work at Al-Madinah, saying of the trust and governors: "The worst mistake I ever made was getting involved with that shower of scoundrels."
(2) Boris Johnson has always struck me as an enigma wrapped inside a whoopee cushion Yes, those of us who woke up on Friday 24 June to discover that far from being patriots, under the new dispensation we were very likely to be regarded as not simply scoundrels but quite possibly traitors.
(3) Han definitely shoots first (and asks questions later) Lucas and fans have debated for decades whether the sardonic space scoundrel was originally intended to shoot bounty hunter Greedo only after the alien fired his blaster first in the Mos Eisley Cantina in 1977’s saga opener A New Hope, but Abrams clearly has no such qualms about showing the elder Solo as a quick-on-the-draw kind of guy.
(4) He lambasted those at the top of Kremlin power as “thieves, scoundrels and traitors who must be destroyed”.
(5) A younger version of Solo will instead return in a new spin-off , tipped to appear in 2018, with Dave Franco, Logan Lerman and Scott Eastwood reportedly among the frontrunners to play the sardonic space scoundrel.
(6) He had a totally persuasive interview style which led to the unmasking of a scoundrel."
(7) In the immediate postwar period, he was the handsome scoundrel in Giuseppe De Santis's neo-realist melodrama Bitter Rice (1948), in which he was first seen on international screens.
(8) Tom Riddles Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire • Stuart Rose perhaps needs to be reminded of Samuel Johnson’s remark: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Tim Gossling Cambridge
(9) The general public may not share Hislop's tendency to quirky nostalgia, but they certainly think that today's politicians are scoundrels.
(10) He is a very bad man (if you like, or if you don't like), but he may be the purest-spoken scoundrel in all the movies.
(11) They say that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and we are seeing that truism yet again with the government,” Shorten said.
(12) However, that script was reversed on Wednesday as Fiorina repeatedly referenced God, the constitution and the founding fathers while Cruz bashed Trump as “a no-good scoundrel” and “a big government New York liberal, who is a Washington insider, who agrees with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama”.
(13) It is better to be safe than sorry, or, as my mother was fond of saying, "I don't have a grammar school education but I can spot one scoundrel".
(14) Patriotism is indeed the last recourse to which a scoundrel clings.
(15) Did we believe Boris Johnson to be a scoundrel, or someone whose ruling passion was the love of his country?
(16) The person causing much of that bleeding is Sterling Archer himself, a figure informed not only by secret agents such as Bond and Matt Helm, but also by George MacDonald Fraser's literary soldier-scoundrel Flashman (who Reed reckons makes Archer "seem like a social worker").
(17) On idle scoundrel parasites – 2005 Asked how he rated the role of professional TV pundits, Mourinho told the Sunday Express: “The best job in the world is to be a sacked coach.
(18) Iam not going to suggest, as some scoundrel who shares a name with me did on these pages last year, that we should welcome a recession.
(19) You expect Peel to have a lot of splattercore records with titles like I'll Be Glad When You're Dead – but who would have suspected a liking for a-ha's 1986 multi-platinum opus Scoundrel Days ?
(20) It’s a choice between scoundrels.” Many voters, especially younger ones, feel ill-equipped to make that choice.