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
Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Studies have found that people who watch a lot of local news, in which crime is often sensationalized, tend to get a distorted view of how dangerous their neighborhood is.
—Zeynep Tufekci, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Okla Jones, Essence, 10 Sep. 2025
The critique has emerged even as liberal critics of the news media have argued that crime coverage by American news outlets is distorted by anti-Black bias.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
While critics have voiced concern about the ability of whales to skew markets, prediction markets are built in such a way that, when prices give a distorted view of reality, betting the other way proves profitable.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Studies have found that people who watch a lot of local news, in which crime is often sensationalized, tend to get a distorted view of how dangerous their neighborhood is.
—Zeynep Tufekci, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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
The critique has emerged even as liberal critics of the news media have argued that crime coverage by American news outlets is distorted by anti-Black bias.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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The titular robotic dinosaurs are machines piloted by humans who, in the new series, must defend Earth from a monstrous alien invasion trying to resurrect its prehistoric army.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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Lathan had another monstrous game Saturday.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
21 Sep. 2025
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The Republic's look at county-specific numbers also adds clarity to patterns misrepresented in the ADHS report.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Some scientists cited in the DOE's report have said their research was misrepresented or misused in the report.—
Connor Giffin,
Louisville Courier Journal,
25 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
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That change of course also makes the episode feel a bit misshapen.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
28 Aug. 2025
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Some are massive and geologically active, while others are tiny, misshapen rocks silently circling their hosts.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
15 Aug. 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
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So, in an instant, Zeek twisted and pushed the barrel aside, but the robber grabbed his shoulder, firing a shot that cracked through the quiet.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
28 Sep. 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
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Yet part of the force of it is that Michôd has not contorted Christy Martin’s life into some false arc; what was going on beneath her triumph is portrayed with a desperate and idiosyncratic honesty.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 Sep. 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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Prosecutors said Grimes was beaten to death and tortured, suffering from multiple lacerations to her head, two black eyes, and a broken arm, ribs and nose.—
Christine Pelisek,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
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Customers rarely remember the exact response time, unless they were tortured with on-repeat elevator music.—
Tayfun Bilsel,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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