distorted view
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdistortedandview
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distorted
adjective
uk/dɪˈstɔː.tɪd/us/dɪˈstɔːr.t̬ɪd/
pulled into or appearing as a strange or ...
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view
noun
uk/vjuː/us/vjuː/
an opinion, belief, or idea, or a way of thinking ...
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(Definition ofdistortedandviewfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This empathy, indeed sympathy, creates a ratherdistortedviewof the grocers' overall economic performance.
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They present adistortedview.
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I will argue that for all its attractions, it provides adistortedviewof the nature of precedent.
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Both accounts also agree that we obtain adistortedviewof grammar by looking at it only in monologue.
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Early studies used clinical or referral populations to estimate prevalence, leading to adistortedviewof the subject.
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They put forward an extreme anddistortedview.
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He must have adistortedviewof history.
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That is a mostdistortedviewof what happened.
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As a word, it implies a subjective/distortedviewwith clear psychological overtones, although its meaning has been open to varied interpretation.
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The accompanying understanding of the terms of social cooperation presents a narrow anddistortedview of social relations and the ends of social organization.
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Adistortedviewwas given of what the committee actually said.
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That should be said, in case one gets a ratherdistortedviewof our criticism.
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I think that is a very narrow and whollydistortedviewof the situation.
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The very nature of the sample therefore produces adistortedview.
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We have heard whining and have been given adistortedviewof history and nothing else.
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I believe the provisions give adistortedviewof the real situation in these countries.
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Sometimes as a result of their own work, the police may gain adistortedview.
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This is adistortedviewof what is likely to happen in 1990.
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I believe that that is adistortedviewof the problem.
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I believe that we may have adistortedviewof reality.
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I am not at all surprised that they should present adistortedviewof anything.
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Therefore, the reporting can lead to adistortedviewof the whole situation.
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It is not a private idiosyncrasy coming from adistortedviewor a disturbed mind.
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To expect acceptance of a standard of living 29 years old is to show adistortedviewof progress.
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Therefore, to take gross figures of movements of prices can give a completelydistortedviewof what is happening.
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