Come across as
Come across as verb - To give the impression of being.
Usage example: the law professor comes across as a bit of an ogre at first, but he's actually quite personable
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Synonyms for Come across as
Imply and come across as are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Imply" instead a verb "Come across as".
Imply
Imply verb - To convey an idea indirectly.
Come across as and imply are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Come across as" instead a verb "Imply".
Both terms in one sentence
- Declarative Finger: Often used by the authors to imply that the character doing so is just trying to come across as profound, which in turn is used to imply that the character is actually saying something NON-profound.
Source: Discredited Trope - Blazer being a Silent Protagonist and no dialogue option appearing that would imply romance, the fact that the two characters are implied to end up together, now both as regular humans, can come across as very hastily written.
Source: Strangled by the Red String -
For a show that deals with space warfare and some sort of vampiric powers, quite a few scenes and phrases come across as being deliberately ridiculous and not taking themselves nearly as seriously as the underlying material would imply on paper.
Source: Anime / Valvrave the Liberator
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