as in degraded
having or showing lowered moral character or standards
tired of his sick jokes and warped sense of humor
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as in distorted
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
the faulty English translation really warps the meaning of the original Russian text
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as in corrupted
to lower in character, dignity, or quality
claims that violent movies warp the values of our young people
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as in deformed
to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition
freezing warped the plastic, and now the cover won't fit
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Recent Examples of warped
Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Importantly for the team's new measurements, something that arises from warped space-time (in the fourth dimension, remember) is that physical matter isn't the only thing affected by the warps.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
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Adjective
With respect to gender roles, for instance, the aggressive zombies incarnate a warped and rotted form of traditional masculinity, a perversion of the warrior ideal.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2025
Importantly for the team's new measurements, something that arises from warped space-time (in the fourth dimension, remember) is that physical matter isn't the only thing affected by the warps.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
If it’s bowed or warped to the slightest degree, whole sections won’t connect.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2024
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Adjective
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Developed by Toyota, the Sweep Energy Storage System rapidly switches each battery’s power flow on and off in mere microseconds, even when new batteries are connected to degraded or different capacity batteries.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Aug. 2025
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Yet, as Beech pointed out, a lot of the material goods actually from the ‘70s are of a lower quality than earlier decades and also more degraded than the period relics of the ‘80s and ‘90s.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
22 Aug. 2025
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When the condition strikes, that signal is distorted, causing muscles to move involuntarily or get stuck in an abnormal position.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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In a world where images are so numerous and so difficult to understand, truth itself can be in danger, threatened by false interpretations and distorted, misleading half-truths.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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Wallets, coins, and rings are carelessly passed around this little society, and messages are corrupted—from Orsino’s wooing of Olivia, which is accidentally undone by his own go-between, Viola, to the letters that deceive Malvolio.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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There’s a lingering question of whether Dance Mom was a fraud from the beginning or if she gets corrupted as a result of becoming famous overnight as a regular guest on Late Night.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Aug. 2025
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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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Shortly after their release in early 2023, some Ryzen 7000-series X3D chips were becoming physically deformed, developing bulges on the bottom that could permanently damage the CPU and bend the pins in the CPU socket.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
25 Aug. 2025
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The story of corrupt small-town cops taking on a former Marine was written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier and stars Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson and AnnaSophia Robb.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Delegates and party leaders described it as a corrupt and hypocritical maneuver from the governor.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Pulte alleged in the April Department of Justice referral that James potentially misrepresented property descriptions and claimed her primary residential status as Norfolk.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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Yet in women, the condition is often misunderstood and misrepresented, therefore delaying their diagnosis for years.—
Jennifer Shanker,
Flow Space,
27 Aug. 2025
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The problem is that what gets cut isn’t always cosmetic, and sometimes the very safeguards designed to block harmful outputs, such as hate speech or criminal instructions, are weakened or lost.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, the latest jobs report confirmed that the labor market weakened sharply over the spring and summer and that sectors most affected by tariffs have seen the biggest losses.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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Bill Skarsgård stars as Kiritsis, a societal outcast who feels he’s been screwed over by the powers that be.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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There's a channel that runs down the bottom of the down tube that the cables sit in, held in place by a plastic cover that's screwed onto the frame.—
JOHN TIMMER,
ArsTechnica,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Warped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warped. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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