The phrase "confusing appearance" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It describes something that is difficult to understand or makes it hard to distinguish one thing from another. Example: The painting's abstract and chaotic strokes gave it a confusing appearance, making it hard to decipher the artist's message.
This argument confuses appearance with reality.
THERE'S a tendency in this country to confuse appearance with reality.
On MRI, considering that testicular tumours are incidentally identified in 15% of patients after a traumatic episode, a confident differentiation between a hematoma and a neoplastic mass can be easily achieved in most cases, despite confusing US appearance of an inhomogeneous focal lesion, with intralesional vascular signals occasionally observed at colour Doppler analysis [45].
Physicians, if unfamiliar with the subtleties of oncology practice, may keep administering a drug as long as the patient seems to be tolerating it well, hence confusing 'clinical appearance' with 'clinical response'.
Our results provide evidence that prey can obtain protection from predators through using aspects of their appearance confusing predators' estimation of prey trajectory (motion dazzle), and that such protection can come at a cost of reduction in crypsis when the prey is stationary.
The increased cellularity of lipoblastomas makes their appearances on MRI confusing, as they show high signal on both T1-weighted (T1W) and T2-weighted (T2W) images but the signal on T1W is lower and often more heterogeneous than that of the 'mature' subcutaneous fat (Figs. 1 and 2).
Witness reports of the opening accident describe his appearance in confusing, varying detail – "one says he was short, had gold teeth, and was lame in his right foot.
'This is my Fight Club," says Todd Zuniga, the editor of American creative writing magazine Opium and the inventor of Literary Death Match, who is already confusing me with his appearance: strikingly fresh-faced, he tells me he is 35; exuding hipness, he is nonetheless wearing a slightly grotesque white jacket with Miami Vice-style rolled-up sleeves.
Video game websites also commented on Ventus' first appearance, initially confusing him for Roxas during the development of Birth by Sleep, but has since been well received.
