as in distorted
badly or imperfectly formed
a clay sculpture of an eagle that was so malformed that it looked more like a feathered football
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Recent Examples of malformed
Each agent must gracefully handle timeouts, malformed input or missing data from upstream components.
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Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The staffer adds in the video that only one of the snake's heads has eaten so far, and the East Bay Vivarium believes the non-eating head has a malformed esophagus.
—Kelli Bender, People.com, 2 May 2025
Seven goats became pregnant; six had miscarriages, but one kid was born—with a malformed lung.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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
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Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The staffer adds in the video that only one of the snake's heads has eaten so far, and the East Bay Vivarium believes the non-eating head has a malformed esophagus.
—Kelli Bender, People.com, 2 May 2025
Seven goats became pregnant; six had miscarriages, but one kid was born—with a malformed lung.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malformed
Adjective
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By 1996, every band with a guitar felt the pressure to crank its amps as loud as possible, and even indie pop fans heard the clean jangle of prior years give way to the distorted crunch and Psychocandy worship of bands like Black Tambourine and Henry’s Dress.—
David Glickman,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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Transcription’s third section, in certain respects a distorted mirror of the first, is somehow even more about dads and Apple products.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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But the movie's radical makeovers of the ethereal Ariel and monstrous Caliban offer rather more justification for the movie's status as a bona fide sci-fi classic.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Sayell and drummer Jack Egglestone sound monstrous here, the late Steve Albini still seemingly present a quarter-century after producing and engineering Do Dallas.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Central Park, for instance, has been reduced to a small, deformed square.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Jan. 2026
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As a result, his vocals have a kind of stately yet starry-eyed quality, giving structure to these deformed, cosmic beats from the internet abyss.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
3 Sep. 2025
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Give them rich soil, adding in compost for a nutrient boost, and deep, consistent watering to prevent bitter, misshapen fruit.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
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The disease causes bitter, misshapen fruit unsuitable for sale or eating; infected trees eventually die, according to the CDFA.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Malformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malformed. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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