The term Vascuence, derived from Latin vasconĭce, has acquired negative connotations over the centuries and is not well liked amongst Basque speakers generally.

The term common law has three main connotations and several historical meanings worth mentioning:

" is too loaded with spurious connotations to be meaningful ; but he proposed to replace all such questions with a specific operational test, which has become known as the Turing test.

Despite the negative connotations associated with the term " Cabal ," the name has stuck with this particular team of " good-guy geeks.

In the United States, the term " Darwinism " is often used by creationists as a pejorative term in reference to beliefs such as atheistic naturalism, but in the United Kingdom the term has no negative connotations, being freely used as a short hand for the body of theory dealing with evolution, and in particular, evolution by natural selection.

Design has different connotations in different fields ( see design disciplines below ).

Dictator has also developed nearly similar pejorative connotations, though despot and tyrant tend to stress cruelty and even enjoyment therefrom, while dictator tends to imply more harshness or unfair implementation of law.

Just as the word Byzantine is often used in a pejorative way, so the word despot now has equally negative connotations.

The word " fractal " often has different connotations for laypeople than mathematicians, where the layperson is more likely to be familiar with fractal art than a mathematical conception.

Although this word, in English, has taken on purely military connotations, in reality it covers the vast range of human enterprise-family life, work, spiritual development, and, at the end of all this, justified defensive warfare.

When used to allege that a given party is gaining disproportionate power, the term gerrymandering has negative connotations.

Although the word Gurmukhī has been commonly translated as " from the Mouth of the Guru ," the term used for the Punjabi script has somewhat different connotations.

In this sense, the term has no real positive connotations, except for the idea that the hacker is capable of doing modifications that allow a system to work in the short term, and so has some sort of marketable skills.

" David Harley Serlin observes in the second half of Melville's diptych, " The Tartarus of Maids ," the narrator gives voice to the oppressed women he observes: " As other scholars have noted, the " slave " image here has two clear connotations.

The phrase " Ηρακλείς του στέμματος " (" Defenders of the Crown ") has pejorative connotations (" chief henchmen ") in Greek.

The term Ivy League also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.

Any regional variety of English has a set of political, social and cultural connotations attached to it, even the so-called ' standard ' forms.

It may be assumed that her preferred name was " Marina " or " Doña Marina ," since she chose it and it has not acquired the negative connotations that engulfed the name " Malinche " after her death.

University of California, Berkeley has three institutional structures within which media studies can take place: the department of Film and Media ( formerly Film Studies Program ), including famous theorists as Mary Ann Doane and Linda Williams, the Center for New Media, and a long established interdisciplinary program formerly titled Mass Communications, which recently changed its name to Media Studies, dropping any connotations which accompany the term “ Mass ” in the former title.

In commentary on the term and its usage, scholars have noted it is both a popular colloquial term, and one that has negative connotations.

This plays on the long-established connotations of motels and illicit sexual activity, which has itself formed the basis for numerous other films, variously representing the thriller, comedy, teen film and sexploitation genres.

The word has negative connotations for many people, and while certain practices considered by some to be " occult " are also found within mainstream religions, in this context the term " occult " is rarely used and is sometimes substituted with " esoteric ".

The term pagan is a Christian adaptation of the " gentile " of Judaism, and as such has an inherent Abrahamic bias, and pejorative connotations among monotheists, comparable to heathen and infidel.

It is not entirely cyclical because it claims the golden age has passed and history is gradually descending towards decadence.

Nietzsche asserts that with the decline of Christianity and the rise of physiological decadence, nihilism is in fact characteristic of the modern age, though he implies that the rise of nihilism is still incomplete and that it has yet to be overcome.

As John Gillies has argued “ the ‘ orientalism ’ of Cleopatra ’ s court — with its luxury, decadence, splendour, sensuality, appetite, effeminacy and eunuchs — seems a systematic inversion of the legendary Roman values of temperance, manliness, courage ”.

The symbolist style has frequently been confused with decadence.

The traditional explanation for the rapid fall of the Visigothic kingdom has been decadence.

In another, the arrival of pop culture and motorcycles propels Don Camillo into fighting " decadence ", a struggle in which he finds he has his hands full, especially when the Christ mainly smiles benevolently on the young rascals.

In a broader sense the expression fin de siècle is used to characterise anything that has an ominous mixture of opulence and / or decadence, combined with a shared prospect of unavoidable radical change or some approaching " end ".

Harold Gene Moss, arguing that Macheath is a noble character, has written, " whose drives are toward love and the vital passions, Macheath becomes an almost Christ-like victim of the decadence surrounding him.

According to Cioran, as long as man has kept in touch with his origins and hasn't cut himself off from himself, he has resisted decadence.

The intersection has been mentioned or alluded to in dozens of songs, films, video games, music videos and other popular media, often as a symbol of Hollywood's lure as a destination for dreamers, or for its decadence and disappointments.

* Mr. Issa has stated that he feels satisfied with Hedonism's image of " decadence and debauchery ".

An anecdote told by Ernest Hemingway has an enraged Cocteau charging Radiguet ( known in the Parisian literary circles as " Monsieur Bébé " – Mister Baby ) with decadence for his tryst with a model: " Bébé est vicieuse.

Mike Williams, a founder of the sludge style and member of Eyehategod, suggests that " the moniker of sludge apparently has to do with the slowness, the dirtiness, the filth and general feel of decadence the tunes convey ".

Despite this disastrous defeat, a cult of ' Sebastianism ', with the young monarch as Portugal's " Once and Future King " who would one day, like King Arthur, return to save his nation, has ebbed and flowed in Portuguese life ever since, and was particularly strong late in the 19th century as a Romantic revivalism, some saying that to be one of the causes of the decadence and lack of attitude in late Portuguese History.

This competition of vulgarity is led by two theaters, and each has its champion of decadence.

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B -" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " Strange Days has a dazzling atmosphere of grunge futurism, but beneath its dark satire of audiovisual decadence lurks a naggingly conventional underworld thriller ".

Since 2005, there have been reports that the organization has specifically targeted LGBT Iraqis for execution, as part of a larger campaign against decadence and immorality.

He claims that " lifestyle anarchism " goes against the fundamental tenets of anarchism, accusing it of being " decadent " and " petit-bourgeois " and an outgrowth of American decadence and a period of declining struggle, and speaks in nostalgic terms of " the Left that was " as, for all its flaws, vastly superior to what has come since.

The greed and wastefulness shown at the buffet scene, as well as Cartman's overall greediness and lack of understanding regarding the plight of starving African children, has been said to demonstrate an over-abundance and decadence typically associated with Americans.

Most Morocco citizens were raised to believe that homosexuality and gender identity are signs of western decadence or immorality and the government has not been especially eager to formally address the issue of LGBT-rights in Morocco.

They attack Gotham because they feel the city has become decadent ; in the same way as in the comics, the League of Shadows seeks to restore balance when civilization becomes far too decadent ; Ra's Al Ghul said that the League has worked to balance corruption throughout history as human civilization achieved decadence around the world, as Ra's stated " We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned London to the ground.

Sorokin has interpreted the contemporary Western civilisation as a sensate civilisation dedicated to technological progress and prophesied its fall into decadence and the emergence of a new ideational or idealistic era.