false impression
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffalseandimpression
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false
adjective
uk/fɒls/us/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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impression
noun
uk/ɪmˈpreʃ.ən/us/ɪmˈpreʃ.ən/
an idea or opinion of what something or someone ...
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(Definition offalseandimpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffalse impression
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Technological change has generated a quitefalseimpressionthat most people are now more adept at visual interpretation than ever before.
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The development of a parallel market economy in recent years has given thefalseimpressionthat the camps could be, or are nearly, self-sufficient.
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In other words, a first glance immediately gives afalseimpressionof a building which was in fact utterly careless of the rules of composition.
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This gives thefalseimpressionthat those theories are appropriate in their respective domains, and need not be compared.
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The hidden nature of many public health activities and its apparent success in controlling high profile outbreaks give thefalseimpressionthat all is well.
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In the first place the name is wrong: it creates afalseimpressionof causal links.
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But this does not excuse their quotation in isolation and thefalseimpressionthereby created.
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Therefore, treating each individual as independent gives afalseimpressionthat there is more information in the data than there really is.
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Planes oblique to the vessel may create thefalseimpressionof stenosis.
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I also wish to correct afalseimpressioncreated by this response.
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I left hisfalseimpressionundisturbed; and accepted the work he had to give.
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Both were very positive about all aspects of their course and this may give afalseimpressionin terms of their prominence in the charts below.
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Migrant workers' adjusting their departure and return to the agricultural calendar gives thefalseimpression that they all belonged to a single category of seasonal migrants.
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Contrary to thefalseimpressionof immaturity provided by traditional analyses, the developmental levels involved in pathology are typically the same as those in normal development.
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Even if we think that lying, defined with a suitable narrowness, is never permissible, we will want to say something different about merely deceiving - deliberately giving afalseimpression.
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Additives create afalseimpressionin consumers and give foods vivid, bright colours that are not found in nature.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Instead, they rely on certain figures, which happen to be correct but which, in my submission, give a totallyfalseimpression.
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One of our enemies in that effort is afalseimpressionthat numbers in the armed forces are in decline and opportunities with them.
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