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
Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Townshend let loose with a blast of distorted guitar as keyboard player Loren Gold played in one of the evening’s highlights.
—Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
For decades, Black performers, writers, and producers have fought to carve out space in an industry that too often overlooked or distorted their stories.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 10 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
Low, ominous bass riffs giving way to a distorted wail of electric guitar signaled that this was the juncture in American history when the gloves came off and the real ass-kicking began.
—Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Townshend let loose with a blast of distorted guitar as keyboard player Loren Gold played in one of the evening’s highlights.
—Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
Therefore a crucial work in the career of one of the greatest of filmmakers is missing—and the understanding and appreciation of her career is distorted.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
For decades, Black performers, writers, and producers have fought to carve out space in an industry that too often overlooked or distorted their stories.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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Through her restraint, Roberts provokes in us some semblance of empathy for her character – in a movie where everyone else is basically monstrous.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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Paige teases a little of how the monstrous entity preys on the tension of the period.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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One 2018 report by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General found that the Nakamoto Group’s inspection reports misrepresented the work done for their evaluations, and that the facilities’ conditions did not match what government inspectors observed during their own visits.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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Charlie Kirk’s letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been published in full, following accusations it had initially been misrepresented.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 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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Some of her concerns exist because the pipeline sits in the open water of the Great Lakes and has been damaged multiple times by ship’s anchors, is subject to corrosion, and has been found to be bent and deformed by the extremely powerful currents in the Straits of Mackinac.—
Mike Shriberg,
The Conversation,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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There’s a hazy, fantastical quality to the videos in general, but not the kind of fantasy where letters are misshapen and blurring into one another.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Laws are not meant to be twisted and curated by privileged elites to fit their own personal agenda.—
Jen Juneau,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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The star wide receiver made a 10-yard catch for a third-down conversion right along the right sideline and twisted his left leg beneath Malachi Moore as the New York safety made the tackle out of bounds.—
David Wilson,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Some language just gets contorted in error.—
Louis J. Esterhazy,
Footwear News,
11 Oct. 2025
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Even an otherwise neutral comment can be contorted into a sarcastic retort, an insult or a counterattack.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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The Jays tortured the Yankees all season, and notched one final win 5-2 in Game 4 of the AL Division Series on Wednesday.—
The Athletic MLB Staff,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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In May 2025, an independent investigation found that African Parks rangers had raped, beat and tortured indigenous people.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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