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Recent Examples of malformed The tall clay-like skin creature looks like a candle melting in human form, without eyes, and with malformed hands that resemble a fetus’ in a sonogram. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024 Popular on Variety These malformed moments are practically endless. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Oct. 2024 Tonally, the story ends up halfway between malformed melodrama about inequity and a mystery steeped in respectability politics, wherein the point is how easily political allegiances (or assumptions about cops who shoot unarmed Black men) can blind one to greater complexities. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025 Some of the movie’s visual flaws — like the malformed CGI snow in its opening scene — can be easily forgiven as a fairytale-like flourishes when a younger, homeless Hornclaw (Shin Si-ah) is taken in by a kindly restaurant owner who also claims to work in pest control. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for malformed
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Adjective
  • Humans are better than computers at deciphering letters and words; early CAPTCHAs displayed an image of distorted text, which the viewer had to type correctly to proceed.
    Alan Burdick, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • For me, balancing family and the creative lifestyle and more, time is definitely about distorted moments.
    Roberta Naas, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • On a tiny Caribbean island near Costa Rica, a megalomaniacal tycoon (Richard Attenborough) has set up an animal preserve that is half theme park, half monstrous Bronx Zoo.
    David Denby, Vulture, 3 July 2025
  • These winds should be powerful enough to blow the outer layers of these monstrous stars into space.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • The Mother is a deformed woman, the result of generations of inbreeding.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 3 June 2025
  • Those outside the Lloyd Kaufman fan club may still be curious to see Peter Dinklage in the title role of a meek slob janitor who starts really cleaning up the city after an accident with radioactive waste transforms him into a deformed vigilante.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2025

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“Malformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malformed. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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