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false impression
noun as in misunderstanding
Example Sentences
The leaders who support such cuts continue to give the false impression that they are merely reducing waste, fraud, and abuse.
I do want to clear up one false impression, though, caused by my failure to express myself clearly enough.
And the day after that ... The TV show "The West Wing" gives a false impression of what government work is like.
This is not a time to manipulate or skulk into situations sideways, attempting to give a false impression of nonchalance.
The credulity of the public has been put to its extreme capacity of false impression relative to her conduct in this particular.
To state the theory is, however, to risk giving an entirely false impression of the facts.
Excuse, I beseech you, his thrusts; I should be very sorry to have you depart from my house under a false impression.
He was personally one of those young men about whom you may easily produce a false impression if you describe them at all.
And this is the man who sprinkles around charges of “misrepresentation,” and of having “skilfully conveyed a false impression”!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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