American officials have stopped using the word "liberalization," because it carries unpleasant connotations to many Chinese officials.

From Tanaka's inflection, the name didn't seem derogatory, but with such nicknames, unpleasant connotations could develop rapidly.

But he apparently concluded that "sacrifice" had too unpleasant a connotation.

So it had an unpleasant connotation to begin with, but not one that should have upset an experienced nurse.

Soskind, who was glaring at the caricature, said, "The word 'beat' has unpleasant connotations.

Some places have unpleasant connotations because of what they are like.

The word "Apician" came to have unpleasant connotations of bad manners, greediness, and prompt payment.

Of all the words that might describe the fuxes' way of giving birth, "nest" carried the least unpleasant connotations.

The fact that it had been here at this particular time and place had some unpleasant connotations.

A concept which, by the way, since Durban, has had all kinds of unpleasant connotations.