How to Use misimpression in a Sentence

misimpression

noun
  • Many in the local tourism industry say visitors have been scared away by the misimpression that the entire area has been reduced to ash and rubble.
    Jim Carlton, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2017
  • This is a common misimpression among the Military History gang.
    Noam Cohen, Wired, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The company said its communications with workers were an attempt to provide information and clear up misimpressions, and that dues were not a focal point.
    Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Of course, if the speech is a dastardly one, this gives a misimpression or disinformation portrayal of that historical figure.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 July 2022
  • Clinton would say things that were technically true but that created a misimpression that kind of intentionally sent people in the wrong direction.
    David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
  • But sifting through the Pickles also corrected some misimpressions of history.
    Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 18 Oct. 2015
  • Thus, lawmakers have an opportunity to propose the inclusion of details that may be necessary to correct any misimpressions; or Democrats could prepare their own summary in an effort to demonstrate Nunes’s partisan spin.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
  • That misimpression convinced the company to provide ticketing-processing services for the festival.
    Andy Gensler, Billboard, 16 May 2017
  • City special narcotics prosecutor Bridget Brennan also has expressed reservations in the past, saying the facilities could risk legal problems, neighborhood tension and giving a misimpression that drug use is safe.
    Jennifer Peltz, ajc, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Another significant misimpression from the article relates to a reference about an instructor who spoke against vaccination.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 18 Nov. 2019
  • People have a misimpression — marketing doesn’t mean advertising.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The narrative is based on innuendo, half-truths, misimpressions and mischaracterizations.
    oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2019

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