| Of course, the former are never referred to as overdeveloped, for to do so would indicate a negative connotation. |
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| The racial descriptor does not seem to have originated as a pejorative, but acquired a negative connotation over time. |
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| Ensure there is no negative connotation and adapt slogans so they will resonate with the local market. |
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| In the past the word had a somewhat negative connotation, for a gaucho was considered a vagabond or an expert trickster. |
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| Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield examines the negative connotation of the phrase and turns it into an affirmation. |
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| However, unlike a voice print, a thumbprint carries with it a negative connotation, given its association with the criminal process. |
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| But that has never struck me as terribly apt or helpful, despite its obviously negative connotation. |
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| Thanks to Hollywood, blood often has a negative connotation and is associated with things such as death, injury and gore. |
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| Eutrophication: eutrophication of an aquatic environment originally refers to its becoming richer in nutrients, with no negative connotation. |
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| This is not easy to understand, because the notion of fear normally has a negative connotation. |
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| The impact on industry and trade from this negative connotation could be significant. |
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| Bias by word choice changes how the subject is shown by using words with a positive or negative connotation. |
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| For some, the word power has a negative connotation and implies control, force or undue influence. |
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| In the new Member States, the negative connotation of the term cooperative is a problem for modern cooperative development. |
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| In this Office's Preliminary Report, mention was made of the negative connotation of the association between thumbprints and the criminal law process. |
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| Print media, there's a real negative connotation. |
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| It often conveys a negative connotation, as the massive distribution of messages is equated with cultural homogenization, conformity and diminished quality. |
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| There is little indication of any negative connotation in the term before the end of the Viking Age. |
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| Such a review unfortunately has a negative connotation. |
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| Some argue that it conveys a negative connotation of a timeless unchanging past. |
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| It first became common with its current sense in Great Britain, during the 1870s and was used with a negative connotation. |
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| Queers strategically readopted the term by reversing the negative connotation attached to it to a positive one. |
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| Thus bilingualism, an advantage, takes a negative connotation. |
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| Now that he knows the negative connotation of this expression for blacks, black Canadians hope he will publicly pledge to remove this pejorative term from his vocabulary, and we hope all Canadians will do so as well. |
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| In this context, the word imbalance carries no negative connotation. |
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| Enterprise policy will examine the conditions under which failure could acquire a less negative connotation and it could be acceptable to try again. |
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| In modern period, the Migration Period was increasingly described with a rather negative connotation and tribes' contribution to the fall of Rome was more and more underlined. |
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| The term ignoble savage has an obvious negative connotation. |
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| During this time the use of opium had little negative connotation and was used freely until 1882 when a law was passed to confine opium smoking to specific dens. |
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