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
Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
In the absence of a community process which provides emotional and psychological checks and balances, participants can carry distorted perceptions about themselves into the quotidian world.
—Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
If your shrubs have distorted, yellowing, or curling leaves or their growth seems stunted, take a close look.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
To Kyle, Camille is a woman who rewrites history, reminiscent of Kyle’s sister’s wilfull denial of her addiction issues, which forces Kyle to live in a distorted narrative.
—Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
In the absence of a community process which provides emotional and psychological checks and balances, participants can carry distorted perceptions about themselves into the quotidian world.
—Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
Some analysts noted that the strikes and recent winter storms may have distorted the latest employment data, overstating the weakness last month.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
If your shrubs have distorted, yellowing, or curling leaves or their growth seems stunted, take a close look.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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Witness the most monstrous of monster transformations, one that cemented Rick Baker’s legacy and earned him his first Academy Award, unfurl on the big screen before your very eyes.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
11 Mar. 2026
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Some are ugly, some are monstrous, some get bugs and diseases, and some manage to do all these things.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
10 Mar. 2026
Verb
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If investigators determine that Noem knowingly misrepresented facts while testifying, the conduct should be prosecuted as a federal felony.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
14 Mar. 2026
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Federal officials later filed a notice of appeal of the ruling, and the administration continued pursuing possible deportation based on allegations that Khalil misrepresented information on his green card application.—
Faith Bugenhagen,
Austin American Statesman,
13 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The mountains themselves are too deformed to hold hydrocarbons.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2026
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Hadi tells an engaging story, brings complex and surprising characters to life, lends a locale an aesthetic iconography, and renders personal identity inextricable from the forces of history that shaped or deformed it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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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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After years of pruning, the shrub may be misshapen and will never look attractive again.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
1 Mar. 2026
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Irish dance troupes jumped and twisted every few hundred feet while bands armed with drums and bagpipes played plied their trade.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Mar. 2026
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The greatest writers never lose sight of eternity, it has been said, no matter how loud or twisted the events in the foreground.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Cross-country skiing is known for its attrition, an event that leaves its competitors foam-mouthed and slack-jawed; athletes of iron reduced to trembling and contorted shapes on the floor.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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For the entire 15-minute show, they’ve been contorted into pieces of furniture Lawson fabricated, pieces befitting something between an asylum and BDSM dungeon, and reminiscent of Allen Jones’s 1960s Pop sculpture series, which depicts fiberglass women in fetishware as home objects.—
Anna Peele,
Vanity Fair,
6 Feb. 2026
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Now imagine that instead of writing tweets, a malformed AI model would be producing military advice or making military decisions.—
Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
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The Port of San Diego is promoting a fundraiser supporting a Harbor Police officer recovering from a medical emergency caused by malformed blood vessels in his brain.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Dec. 2025
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His fourth attempt was foiled when he was arrested at the airport and detained and tortured for several months.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
12 Mar. 2026
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The former soldier also said Haitian police mentally and physically tortured the Colombian suspects after they were taken into custody.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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