During the campaign Beaudry turned off voters with religious and negative overtones.

In other languages those words may not have any negative overtones.

This meaning held through the 15th century, but by then the word had taken on negative overtone, meaning "a country person" and then "a low fellow".

Despite the character's impressive new credentials, some advertising executives expressed skepticism that the campaign could avoid negative overtones.

The Buid language is rich in words for fear, fleeing, and escape from danger, none of which carries negative moral overtones.

To outsiders, it may have negative racial overtones, but in the city this is not the case.

Official Catholic documents no longer use the term, due to its perceived negative overtones.

In the beginning of the 20th Century, debates characterized by negative religious overtones challenged the right of these Catholic agencies to serve the poor.

Fictional invocations of Arnold's name also carried strongly negative overtones.

That's a questionable reference at best, and one that carries negative racial overtones.