What's the difference between connotation and underhanded?

Connotation


Definition:

  • (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.

Underhanded


Definition:

  • (a.) Underhand; clandestine.
  • (a.) Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
  • (2) Sly, underhanded, contemptuous, mendacious, double-dealing, cheating democracy.
  • (3) It is plain that, by means up-front and underhand, unemployment benefit is being systematically destroyed as a reliable source of income.
  • (4) We are going to work it out.” Mercedes’ executive director, Toto Wolff, said of the feud: “As long as it isn’t detrimental to the team spirit, as long as it is not underhand, we will handle the situation in the way we did before.
  • (5) The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.
  • (6) In 2006, Norris told the Observer: "I never became involved with underhand dealings or giving money to coppers."
  • (7) However, the health secretary is likely to face a parliamentary inquiry into his department’s figures after the Commons public accounts committee accused him of “underhand” behaviour in publishing his department’s figures on the last day before MPs leave for their summer break.
  • (8) They say they are the target of underhand plots by their political opponents.
  • (9) Some member states saw it as an underhand way for the UK to get an advantage.
  • (10) This time, the senior point guard made an underhanded flip to Jenkins, who spotted up a pace or two behind the arc and swished it with Carolina’s Isaiah Hicks running at him.
  • (11) The Abbott government should listen to the people of Australia instead of trying to bully them and wear them down with expensive advertising propaganda campaigns and underhanded political tactics.” Even if the PUP decided to support a compromise package, the votes of Lambie, Xenophon and Muir would be enough to defeat the bill when combined with Labor and the Greens.
  • (12) If he is no longer the favoured man, why is the education secretary so underhand in his disapproval?
  • (13) Nor does there need to be personal or commercial gain from underhand behaviour.
  • (14) "They occur where there is a misunderstanding or miscommunication or sometimes something more underhand," says a spokesman.
  • (15) A visual model performing an underhand modified softball pitch was viewed prior to each of four blocks of five practice trials.
  • (16) "In those days, what was considered proper reporting was to do things in as underhand and as deceitful a way as possible.
  • (17) BAE's underhand methods further call into question the intimate relationship between BAE and the government."
  • (18) Transparency campaigners said the groups' funding left them open to allegations of underhand dealings.
  • (19) It might be an underhand way to run a tax system, but it serves Luxembourg well.
  • (20) Such transactions are commonplace in San Francisco and the Silk Road was meant to be their alternative: a place where anyone who wanted drugs could buy them without associating with underhanded dealers or entering dangerous alleyways.