"But in South Africa it has a really bad connotation."

I know it is sometimes ugly and has bad political connotations.

There has been bad connotations of online virtual games, that are not favorable.

But it has all of these bad connotations in our minds.

"For us, the notion of declaring bankruptcy had all the bad connotations."

She grew up there, and it has a bad connotation for her.

The army has a bad connotation, of coming to arrest somebody, to beat you up.

I hate to use the word 'ghetto' because it has so many bad connotations.

Uzbekistan is not a country where running away to join the circus has particularly bad connotations.

The word generally has a bad connotation, but mutation can give an organism an advantage depending on the environment.