misimpression
Example Sentences
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The misimpression among Americans, they wrote, fosters “a false reality about the landscape of debate which can unnecessarily undermine their hope about the future.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote that the lawyer was given wrong information by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, adding: “We regret any misimpression inadvertently created by the answer that was given.”
From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2023
We New Yorkers also labor under the misimpression that squirrels are rats who get away with it because they have fluffy tails.
From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2022
In doing so, the article might have left the misimpression that such covenants remained as an effective tool to maintain segregation until the Fair Housing Act.
From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022
Huge boulders lent an air of solidity to the place, but the rolling rubble underfoot corrected the misimpression.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
