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
Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 21 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
Daniel Torrent, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
In the deepfake, pastor LeClaire, though a bit fuzzy and distorted, spoke with authority.
—Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
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Adjective
But there are growing signs of creeping financial pain, linked to a distorted war economy.
—Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 21 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
Because of the strain a pulmonary embolism puts on the heart, the anatomy is distorted.
—Daniel Torrent, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
In the deepfake, pastor LeClaire, though a bit fuzzy and distorted, spoke with authority.
—Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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Like a monstrous earthworm or a section of large intestine, the pink end of the tube seems to undulate in waves of peristaltic movement, pushing its invisible contents from end to end.—
Gordon Hughes,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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Only Byrne’s flashes of humor and desperately flailing humanity keep her on this side of monstrous.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Kornet’s statement misrepresented stripping, the Warriors’ Draymond Green suggested on his podcast.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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Censori insisted in her testimony that Saxon had misrepresented his credentials, which has been a key part of Ye’s defense.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
6 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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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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Some reels were rusted and misshapen, pieces of nitrate had crumbled, and other strips were stuck together.—
Eric Henderson,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Its lower jaw twisted outward from back to front.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Mar. 2026
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Tanyka’s lower jaw twisted outward from back to front.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
6 Mar. 2026
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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
Adjective
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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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Experts see positive trends Despite California’s long and tortured history with auto insurance, rates in the state remain below the national average.—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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One of them was a person whose eight-month-old baby was tortured in front of his eyes.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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