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
Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
Each distorted arc, ring or multiplied galaxy image acts as a natural cosmic magnifying glass, offering astronomers a powerful tool to look further back into the universe's history.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
These frequent misrepresentations can damage trust not only in the systems themselves but also in news organizations whose content is being distorted.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Its highly distorted structure could enable complex transition pathways that lead to metastable ice phases.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
Each distorted arc, ring or multiplied galaxy image acts as a natural cosmic magnifying glass, offering astronomers a powerful tool to look further back into the universe's history.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
On the other hand, ChatGPT’s audio is noticeably distorted.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
These frequent misrepresentations can damage trust not only in the systems themselves but also in news organizations whose content is being distorted.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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The monstrous home run chased Ohtani out of the game – at least from the mound.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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High above the little town of Grubbers Nubbin looms Castle Grotteskew, the maddest of all mad professors brings his latest monstrous creations to (almost)-life.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
31 Oct. 2025
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Residents and local leaders have said that TCEQ misrepresented the nature of the intersection in a traffic study completed for the application.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute said the ad misrepresented the former president’s words.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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In the past few years, the nation’s collective memory—never the strongest—has been relentlessly deformed by right-wing propaganda.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Both of the Yunxian skulls were deformed from millennia spent underground, but the second, known as Yunxian 2, was better preserved.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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Lately, Parker has also embraced the wabi-sabi ideal—that there is glory in irregularity, in something being vaguely misshapen.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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No franchise in Disney’s deep corporate Rolodex is more odd and misshapen than Tron.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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Others said preachers twisted scripture to silence them.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
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Late in the second half against the Cowboys, Surtain tried to wrap up Pickens and twisted 360 degrees while trying to bring the wideout down around his upper body.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
27 Oct. 2025
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One oral tradition about Lake Nyos describes how people long ago attempted to cross the dry lake bed between the high, contorted rock formations of the maar’s volcanic rim.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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Rogalski contorted his body and got a foot down in bounds to secure the interception at Mahtomedi’s 42 yard line.—
Andrew Cornelius,
Twin Cities,
16 Oct. 2025
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Each agent must gracefully handle timeouts, malformed input or missing data from upstream components.—
Gopikrishnan Anilkumar,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The third cub — a female — was found to have a malformed shoulder and elbow, likely congenital, as well as a bullet embedded in her front paw, Thompson said.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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Combined with the numbers injured, detained or tortured, at least one percent of the Strip’s population suffered first-hand from Israeli violence during the first occupation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Maloyan served as Archbishop of Mardin from 1911 to 1915 and was tortured and killed after refusing to convert to Islam.—
Jenni Fink,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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