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
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Stunting or slow growth with distorted leaves or stems.
—Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025
Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 17 Jan. 2026
That reminds me a lot of the ways footage or stories around trans people and their actions in the world can be distorted and misconstrued and twisted in a different way to work against us.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
Instead, growing evidence suggests that AI tools can reinforce distorted beliefs among individuals already at risk.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
Stunting or slow growth with distorted leaves or stems.
—Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 29 Dec. 2025
Verb
The largest cost pressures today are concentrated in sectors where government has distorted markets the most.
—Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 17 Jan. 2026
That reminds me a lot of the ways footage or stories around trans people and their actions in the world can be distorted and misconstrued and twisted in a different way to work against us.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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There are still so few stories about butch women, transmasculine, genderqueer, or nonbinary bodies—the kind of bodies that have been called monstrous all our lives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Stranger Things should have either kept the Mind Flayer as the chief antagonist or revealed some even greater, more monstrous power behind it and the other eldritch horrors of the Upside Down.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Shapiro says his comments were misrepresented.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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Also consider that something could be misrepresented in this situation or another before January comes to a close.—
Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
17 Jan. 2026
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American bases built inside the ice sheet, such as Camp Century, were quickly crushed as the encasing snow deformed.—
Paul Bierman,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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One of those difficulties was figuring out how to square the minimal and highly refined designs of Mies and Johnson with the raw and sometimes deformed materials salvaged from RedBird.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Focus on removing crossing, touching, weak, or misshapen branches that grow upwards or downwards into other layers, and remove twiggy, spindly growth down the trunk.—
Gemma Johnstone,
The Spruce,
18 Jan. 2026
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When not in use, keep your wool sweaters folded, and avoid hanging them, which can cause misshapen impressions or stretch out the shoulders.—
Kevin Gray,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Dec. 2025
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Karrie Downs confirmed that 99% of what is on Facebook is exaggerated or twisted in discussing social media photos of their property and confirmed there's no proof of where those photos were taken.—
J.D. Miles,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Defensive coordinator Jesse Minter drew up two first-quarter looks that sent completely unblocked rushers at Nix, and the Chargers twisted Denver’s offensive line around multiple times with exotic blitzes that sent rushers looping around to opposite gaps.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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Their necks contorted slightly and smiles spread across their faces as the high-definition videos started and their journeys commenced.—
Haven Daley,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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Mikomi sees images generated by Grok of her wearing specific fetish outfits, or her body contorted or placed in strange contexts.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Port of San Diego is promoting a fundraiser supporting a Harbor Police officer recovering from a medical emergency caused by malformed blood vessels in his brain.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Dec. 2025
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Legacy filters looking for malware or malformed links see nothing amiss.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Oct. 2025
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When being tortured, name names.—
Keith McNally,
Vanity Fair,
20 Jan. 2026
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Compared with the eight million Venezuelans who had fled the country, the nearly twenty thousand who had been detained for political reasons, the thousands who had been extrajudicially executed, and the hundreds who had been tortured, the deaths of a few dozen people seemed of little significance.—
Oriana van Praag,
New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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