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
Raven Garvey, Space.com, 24 July 2025
Neither their rangers nor their exhibits should be intimidated into parroting a sanitized and distorted version of the nation’s past.
—John Lawrence, Twin Cities, 18 July 2025
Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
The top 12 trends of the fall 2025 season—which range from cozy to cubist and are designed for work and play—somehow manage to navigate smoothly through a time as distorted as a reflection in a funhouse mirror.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
As a result, the protective force field scientists call the magnetosphere became distorted and leaky.
—Raven Garvey, Space.com, 24 July 2025
Neither their rangers nor their exhibits should be intimidated into parroting a sanitized and distorted version of the nation’s past.
—John Lawrence, Twin Cities, 18 July 2025
Verb
In two cases, failure of the vehicles' rearview cameras may cause blank or distorted images to appear, limiting the ability of drivers to utilize the backup feature and increasing crash risk.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
The top 12 trends of the fall 2025 season—which range from cozy to cubist and are designed for work and play—somehow manage to navigate smoothly through a time as distorted as a reflection in a funhouse mirror.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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Her team then discovers something monstrous waiting for them.—
Rudie Obias,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Aug. 2025
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Stephen Tobolowsky played the monstrous Mr. Bates, Anna's English teacher and Tess' former classmate, in Freaky Friday.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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From New York to Miami, the vacation rental market has long been under attack — often misrepresented by powerful hotel lobbies and blamed for housing challenges by policymakers and local residents.—
Shaun McCorry,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2025
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The agency has consistently concealed Hamas’s abuses and misrepresented Israel’s counterterrorism efforts.—
Avraham Russell Shalev,
National Review,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This stresses the plant and may lead to fewer or deformed flowers.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 July 2025
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The Mother is a deformed woman, the result of generations of inbreeding.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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The shape and movement of sperm can also have an effect, since slow or misshapen sperm can have trouble reaching or fertilizing an egg.—
Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
3 July 2025
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People with sickle cell disease produce misshapen red blood cells that can block blood flow to the rest of the body.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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The staffer adds in the video that only one of the snake's heads has eaten so far, and the East Bay Vivarium believes the non-eating head has a malformed esophagus.—
Kelli Bender,
People.com,
2 May 2025
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Seven goats became pregnant; six had miscarriages, but one kid was born—with a malformed lung.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Most of the sunflowers on Van Gogh’s canvases are a mutant double-flowered type.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
2 Aug. 2025
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He's restrained by soldiers and his intensifying emotions unleash his mutant ability.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 July 2025
Verb
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The ball curled through the proverbial eye of a needle, between Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez, and behind Alexis Mac Allister, who was forced to spin on his heels.—
Laurie Whitwell,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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The old woman, though, stares at the screen, the shadow of a smile curled into her lips and a frown barely creasing her forehead.—
Matthew Bremner,
Rolling Stone,
5 Jan. 2025
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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