"portray" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

portray verbo

portray + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 61
portray a David Bailey • portray people • portray the character • portray a woman • portray the role • ...
verbo + portray
Kolokacji: 8
seek to portray • try to portray • want to portray • used to portray • begin portraying • ...
portray + preposición
Kolokacji: 26
portrayed by • portray in • portray on • portray with • portray to • ...
portray + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 48
accurately portray • frequently portrayed • originally portrayed • generally portrayed • later portray • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(2) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(3) originally, initially
Kolokacji: 2
(5) commonly, normally
Kolokacji: 2
(7) unfairly, wrongly, correctly
Kolokacji: 3
1. unfairly portrayed = niesprawiedliwie przedstawić unfairly portrayed
2. wrongly portrayed = źle przedstawić wrongly portrayed
  • Mr. Bolton, who met with Mr. Annan, said the proposed changes were being wrongly portrayed as a break with past American commitments that were agreed to at the millennium summit meeting in 2000.
  • Mr. Bennett, whose bail was revoked last June, sat quietly in a blue prison outfit as his lawyer, Michael D. Pinnisi, argued that Mr. Bennett and his family were being wrongly portrayed.
  • During the trial, defense attorney Catherine Brown Dodson argued that Towery was wrongly portrayed as an innocent elderly man, and that Holberg acted in self-defense when Towery attacked her.
  • But Joseph Solari Jr., president of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Medical Products Group, told the advisory panel that the implants "have been wrongly portrayed as unsafe."
  • Last week, a ruling-party heavyweight, Hiromu Nonaka, publicly attacked Mr. Takenaka for "verbal subterfuge," saying he had wrongly portrayed the Resona developments as a positive step.
  • Davies notoriety in the music business has led to him becoming probably the only Australian rock manager ever to be wrongly portrayed in American TV and film.
  • In response to the President's speech, leaders of the Michigan Militia told The Associated Press that he had wrongly portrayed their movement as violent.
  • Apparently Ram Gopal Verma had even shown Raj Thackeray rushes of the film to allay his fears of being wrongly portrayed.
  • Friends say that he gets wrongly portrayed as "God's Rottweiler" and that he is actually a warm and spiritual man.
3. correctly portrayed = poprawnie przedstawić correctly portrayed
(10) clearly, explicitly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) famously, brilliantly
Kolokacji: 2

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