The racial connotation in this case seems obvious, indeed.

For others it has had a wider connotation for several decades.

Connotation of a name, if it has one, can be taken to be its meaning in Mill.

American diplomats have now abandoned the term pivot altogether, owing to its military connotation, in favor of rebalancing.

The word democracy came to be associated with its particular American variant, and took on an imperialist connotation.

For unmarried girls traditional norms of virginity are prevalent, meaning they cannot carry a condom because of the connotation they are easy to get .

The correction in US policy actually extends even to terminology. American diplomats have now abandoned the term pivot altogether, owing to its military connotation, in favor of rebalancing.

And, because those who believed this (virtually everyone whose voices were heard) belatedly perceived its insulting connotation, discussing the matter has caused considerable anguish in the years since.

Shame may carry the connotation of a response to something that is morally wrong whereas embarrassment is the response to something that is morally neutral but socially unacceptable.

Final share ratios over 1.0 carry a positive connotation in the BitTorrent community, because they indicate that the user has sent more data to other users than they received.

Bush s invocation of democracy to justify the invasion of Iraq implied that democracy could be imposed at the barrel of a gun. Democracy came to be associated with its particular American variant, and took on an imperialist connotation.

And any time one of those little parts of the mobile changes, is touched, any time you touch a word, you use it in a new context, you give it a new connotation, you verb it, you make the mobile move.