12) infer, imply. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...his remarks some of us had inferred that the mayor was a crook. Imply often has a pejorative overtone, suggesting that whatever is being implied is not laudable and...

13) theory. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...tonal music over other systems by reference to the relationship of the triad to the natural overtone series. Analytic theory, on the other hand, undertakes detailed...

14) factious, factitious, fictitious, fractious, frangible. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...up, as in She registered under a fictitious name. Both factitious and fictitious have an overtone of spuriousness. Frangible is a low-frequency word meaning breakable....

15) Scotch 2, Scottish, Scots, Scot, Scotchman, Scotsman, Scotswoman. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...But in the United States, especially for those of Scottish descent, the word has a pejorative overtone stemming perhaps from historic English antipathies to many...

16) 12. The Sayers of the Law. Wells, H.G. 1896. The Island of Doctor Moreau
...comes to live with us? 9 It was a thick voice, with something in it—a kind of whistling overtone—that struck me as peculiar; but the English accent was strangely...

17) 25. Theocritus on Cape Cod by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Matthews, Brander, ed. 1914. The Oxford Book of American Essays
...landscape-painters are now reporting Nature as Theocritus saw her in Sicily; the value of the overtone matching the value of the undertone, to quote an artist s phrase,...

18) VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land. Roosevelt, Theodore. 1914. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
...kind of long-drawn wailing or droning; I am not enough of a musician to say whether it was an overtone or the sustaining of the burden of the ballad. The young boy...