The phrase "false prestige" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a situation where someone or something is perceived to hold a high status or reputation, but it is not deserved or based on genuine qualities. Example: Despite living in poverty, Tom constantly boasts about his expensive designer clothing and parties at exclusive clubs. His behavior is driven by a desire for false prestige, to present himself as someone of high social standing, even though it is not authentic.
Nuzhat Saadia Siddiqi, an environmentalist and activist, said: The prestige factor may be high with shahtoosh, but it is false prestige, standing on the carcasses of dead animals.
"A spiritual master should be accepted in full surrender," he wrote, "and one should serve the spiritual master like a menial servant, without false prestige".
In her brilliant essay "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" George Eliot wrote, "the severer critics are fulfilling a chivalrous duty in depriving the mere fact of feminine authorship of any false prestige which may give it a delusive attraction, and in recommending women of mediocre faculties — as at least a negative service they can render their sex — to abstain from writing".
But the terrible thing about his interest in architecture is that he gave false prestige and authority to people who thought that everything that was new was wrong.
Rajab was charged with publishing and broadcasting false news that undermined the prestige of the state.
Their strategy is rooted in the belief that Netflix doesn't need to choose between quality and quantity, that the eternal showbiz question of whether to go for mass or prestige is a false choice.
The false rumour of riches brings Woody acclaim, status, prestige – which is a big reason, for many the sole reason, for wanting to be rich.
A fifth editor was fined and sentenced to two years' imprisonment on charges of offending and undermining the prestige of the judiciary and circulating false rumours about Mubarak's health.
He is also accused of "defaming the state" by publishing "false news.. and malicious rumours that undermine the prestige of the kingdom" in an opinion piece in the New York Times.
After an 11-day hunger strike, he was charged with "weakening the prestige of the state by disseminating false information regarding human rights violations to foreign human rights organizations".
Most of them had little sympathy for the "superficial, false, and fashionable" Christians allegedly preoccupied with wealth, social prestige, and religious formalism.
