mis·im·pres·sion

[mis-im-presh-uhn]
noun
a faulty or incorrect impression; a misconception or misapprehension.

Origin:
1660–70; mis-1 + impression

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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The problem here arose not from counsel's ignorance of the law, but rather from the court's misimpression regarding it.
Unfortunately, this combined billing sometimes leads to the misimpression that our water rates are high.
His manner is countrified enough to give people a comfortable misimpression of his intelligence and sophistication.
Hopefully this will clear up any misimpression by the public.
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