as in monstrous
badly or imperfectly formed
surgery to correct a distorted foot
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as in misrepresented
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
the coach's message was so distorted after passing through so many people that it was unintelligible
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as in deformed
to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition
if you keep distorting your face like that, someday it's going to freeze in that position
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Recent Examples of distorted
Jon Pareles, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
This film serves as a powerful counter-narrative, challenging the distorted portrayal of his legacy in official historiography.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
Steven Delco, Hartford Courant, 10 Dec. 2024
Some carmakers, especially for electric vehicles, are cutting AM from their offerings, claiming the signal is distorted by the power system.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
The track is a nearly motionless waltz, with dark ambient stirrings of distorted guitar, wafting toward relief or death.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
This film serves as a powerful counter-narrative, challenging the distorted portrayal of his legacy in official historiography.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
Words are twisted and distorted to suit our individual perspectives, and the collective meaning is lost in the process.
—Steven Delco, Hartford Courant, 10 Dec. 2024
Some carmakers, especially for electric vehicles, are cutting AM from their offerings, claiming the signal is distorted by the power system.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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His films may have never depicted the place in flames, exactly, but more than one framed Hollywood as a surreal and monstrous syndicate.—
Will Bahr,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2025
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And when Bridges had a monstrous putback dunk to tie the game at 102-all, the place nearly lifted off the ground.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Jan. 2025
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But ultimately, the Lakota were left voiceless and misrepresented.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Dec. 2024
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Stores are not legally required to accept exchanges or give refunds unless the merchandise was defective or misrepresented.—
Rick Walz,
USA TODAY,
28 Dec. 2024
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Harnessing advanced manufacturing Charlotte, as a boat strike victim with air bubbles trapped under its deformed shell, was considered non-releasable and completely dependent on human care.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
21 Dec. 2024
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In the interview, Northam was discussing legislation in Virginia and a hypothetical situation in which a mother’s life was in danger during delivery involving a severely deformed or non-viable fetus.—
Gabriela Henriquez Stoikow,
Miami Herald,
28 June 2024
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Robert pulled a misshapen earthenware pot from the hotel room’s closet.—
Oren Peleg,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The condition, which occurs due to a portion of the skull being misshapen or too small, can cause symptoms like headaches, dizziness and vertigo, weak muscles, difficulty with balance or coordination, neck pain, trouble swallowing or breathing, insomnia, seizures, slow heart rhythm and more.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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But a malformed command in Python usually returns an error message that keeps the code from running, not something that fails brilliantly yet monstrously, outpacing its creators’ intentions.—
Tim Carmody,
WIRED,
6 Jan. 2025
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This psychological thriller maps out a world of malformed desire and ingestive paranoia without the need for gutsy special effects.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2024
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Fighting a Family Curse: A mutant gene gradually laid waste to her mother’s and grandmother’s brains.—
John Branch,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Indeed, overgrowing mutant clones in mice have been seen to revert to normal growth, as Jones and a co-author describe in the 2023 Annual Review of Cancer Biology.—
Amber Dance,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Jan. 2025
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The old woman, though, stares at the screen, the shadow of a smile curled into her lips and a frown barely creasing her forehead.—
Matthew Bremner,
Rolling Stone,
5 Jan. 2025
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The ball curled through the proverbial eye of a needle, between Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez, and behind Alexis Mac Allister, who was forced to spin on his heels.—
Laurie Whitwell,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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