"awful impression" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a negative or unpleasant feeling or perception that someone has left on another person. For example: - "His rude behavior at the dinner party left an awful impression on the other guests." - "The company's recent scandals have created an awful impression on the public." - "I was nervous for my job interview but I managed to make a good impression and not an awful one."
According to a historian, Sergei Posokhov, who was at the meeting, it created an awful impression.
Riders are being told to be calm at the beginning of the race and that false starts "create an awful impression".
Mawson described a typical foray outside the hut in a mid-winter blizzard: "A plunge into the writhing storm-whirl stamps upon the senses an indelible and awful impression seldom equalled in the whole gamut of natural experience.
The story follows the Circumcised Crusader as he grapples with amnesia and tries to solve the Joker's murder and no, the culprit isn't Tommy Wiseau's awful impression of the supervillain.
"He's a Jewish socialist," Birbiglia explained after attempting a purposefully awful, Woody Allen-esque impression of Jesus.
It makes an awful first impression, slippery and slimy and simply unpleasant in your hand.
My final piece was a shockingly awful Mondrian impression that didn't even have straight lines painted properly.
From awful first impressions, to the cringiest DM slides to the most embarrassing burns, our celebs come into our safe space to reveal dating gossip that they have never told anybody else before.
Say Something is an app in the making that wants to inject some fun into online dating by letting you practice your small talk on other users of the app before you actually go on any first dates — thereby giving you the chance to make all those awful first impressions somewhere where they won't count against you.
"To persons from the outside," Josephus says, "the silence of those within gives the impression of some awful mystery".
But I do get the impression that an awful lot of colleagues are quite miserable at the moment, and I don't know whether they'd all admit to it – in fact, probably none of them would at this stage of the election.
