Financial planners keep trying to reverse the negative spin on budgeting by giving it other names.

The negative spin is that he suffers from character flaws.

Negativity: Depressed people have a general tendency to put a negative spin on events.

I don't see how anyone could be putting a negative spin on that.

"It would have put a negative spin on what I had been doing."

The negative spin: Rich kids get off easy because they can afford good lawyers who know how to plea-bargain.

I can't see that this is any way "controversial" apart from the need to put as negative a spin in everything as possible these days.

I can do the negative spin just as well.

Do you have to put a negative spin on it?