negative light
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5.9
- noun
- Everyone will look at these students in a negative light.
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- But it's not a change that I think is done in a negative light.
- And it portrays, does not portray Judas in a negative light as the one who is the arch enemy.
- And again, that bad experience causes you to view dating and relationships in a negative light.
- So we're we're getting people kind of talking past each other and kind of seeing the other in a negative light.
- When I lay out your point of view the way you see it and don't explain any of it away, particularly stuff that I know, the negative light that you see me in.
- And failure is put in such a negative light in society, but failure is the most cases, the pathway to development.
- And that there would be a great deception that this deception would be basically to paint the phenomenon in a negative light.
- And so then I never saw Kristen in a negative light, but I did start to see the negative aspects of of transgenderism and whatever that means.
- But like, holy crap, you know when when I looked at YouTube from a negative light, my revenue went down.
- An unaffected man in a negative light could not have borne his labor, nor have died sighing that he should leave the banjo's twang.
Examples
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The question remains then: why are officials generally perceived in such a negative light?
Academic text (2007) -
The show took aim at demonstration leaders, portraying them in a negative light.
Blog text (25) -
If you hate men, then you will be more willing to see them in a negative light.
Blog text (30) -
No one wants to be perceived by the majority in a negative light.
Academic text (2001) -
You cannot allow the place of business to be viewed in a negative light.
Blog text (4) -
Many commentators noted that the film cast the Bush administration in a relatively negative light.
Academic text (2004) -
Thompson disliked Frost intensely and saw the affair in a negative light.
Academic text (1996) -
Complementary brochures used the identical pieces of information, but some framed issues in a negative light, while others framed them in a positive light.
Academic text (2010) -
The authors, keen to portray globalization in the most negative light possible, twist their data to produce some truly odd propositions.
Academic text (2000) -
Many people view the organization in a negative light due to past controversies.
Synonyms
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4.5
Not good for success or approval
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6.0
Making someone or something look worse than they really are
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7.0
Showing a low opinion of someone or something
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5.3
In a way that shows disapproval
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4.8
Make someone or something look bad to other people
Antonyms
How Favorable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'negative' clearly means 'unfavorable', and 'light' is used metaphorically to mean a way of viewing or presenting something. Because the overall meaning ('seen or presented unfavorably') follows directly from combining these senses but relies on a conventional figurative use of 'light', learners must recognize the metaphor; this makes it partly but not fully predictable for B1 learners.
Etymology
Negative light may come from the image of shining a bad light on a person or scene so their faults show. The word negative means 'bad', so to put someone in a negative light is to show them in an 'unfavorable' or critical way.