(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.
Untrustworthy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Some pro-government factions in Bahrain have denounced the US as an untrustworthy ally.
(2) The difference is minor, but in the highly charged reaction to MtGox's closure, it is likely to be seized upon as evidence of untrustworthiness on the company's part.
(3) Poll gives Brexit campaign lead of three percentage points Read more Other leading members of the leave campaign have more directly impugned the prime minister’s character, painting him as untrustworthy and damaged as a leader.
(4) For many it is an important source of income because they are unable to get good jobs thanks to their status as untrustworthy and counter-revolutionary citizens.
(5) My view may be too narrow and parochial, but I think it is more than coincidental that two of the groups under severest attack as untrustworthy are politicians and psychiatrists.
(6) And there’s fact-checking of the news in that morning’s issue of Granma – the eminently untrustworthy state newspaper – provided by a man whose sister lives in Miami or a woman who works in a hotel, and watches CNN during slow hours with the German tourist who doesn’t like sightseeing.
(7) The "recovered" group was significantly higher on the ABS Economic Activity domain and significantly lower in the Violent & Destructive, Antisocial, Rebelliousness, Untrustworthiness, Stereotyped Behavior & Odd Mannerisms, and Psychological Disturbance behavior domains.
(8) If a commitment to the impossibility of objective reporting means that any position, however bizarre, is no better or worse than any other, the ultimate effect, which may be the intended one, is to suggest that all media organisations are equally untrustworthy – and to elevate any journalistic errors by the BBC or New York Times into indisputable signs they are lackeys of their own governments.
(9) Hugh Mackay described the net effect of Shorten’s manner, personality, and history as creating an impression of “perhaps weakness, perhaps untrustworthiness, perhaps evasiveness”.
(10) In the eyes of the ideologues, any economic warning is fake news, as untrustworthy as an expert opinion.
(11) The citation's assertion that Obama's diplomacy reflects "values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population" riled conservatives who view the US president's role as to stand up to hostile and untrustworthy foreigners.
(12) Among them are the Russian nationalism, the untrustworthiness, the belief in a zero-sum international game, the fear, the fundamental absence of shared values with the west, the importance of the nuclear standoff, and the readiness to play adversaries off against one another.
(13) The party’s leaders, Thompson said, were despotic and untrustworthy, and would sweep away long-cherished political freedoms if they ever achieved power.
(14) Gingrich, who goes in to next week's Florida primary bolstered by his surprise victory in the South Carolina vote on Saturday, at times struggled to fend off Romney's barrage of accusations, which painted him as serially dishonest, untrustworthy and unfit to be president.
(15) Not only are statistics viewed by many as untrustworthy, there appears to be something almost insulting or arrogant about them.
(16) George is unreliable... untrustworthy... to coin a phrase, a dolt."
(17) Politicians are seen as untrustworthy and hypocritical.
(18) The German chancellor is understood to have echoed the concerns of senior figures in her Christian Democratic Union party, such as the former president of the EU parliament Hans Gert Poettering, that Cameron's behaviour had been untrustworthy.
(19) It's also a bit conspicuous that the very few Somali speaking characters (mostly played by Brits of west African and Caribbean descent) don't do anything except scheme, gloat, menace and be untrustworthy.
(20) It’s a betrayal and frankly I think it makes him a really untrustworthy politician.” Some critics say the ban was a calculated move by the governor to attract national conservatives.