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Recent Examples of malformed The tall clay-like skin creature looks like a candle melting in human form, without eyes, and with malformed hands that resemble a fetus’ in a sonogram. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024 Popular on Variety These malformed moments are practically endless. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Oct. 2024 Tonally, the story ends up halfway between malformed melodrama about inequity and a mystery steeped in respectability politics, wherein the point is how easily political allegiances (or assumptions about cops who shoot unarmed Black men) can blind one to greater complexities. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025 Some of the movie’s visual flaws — like the malformed CGI snow in its opening scene — can be easily forgiven as a fairytale-like flourishes when a younger, homeless Hornclaw (Shin Si-ah) is taken in by a kindly restaurant owner who also claims to work in pest control. Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for malformed
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Adjective
  • The constant consumption showcased on social media represents a distorted reality.
    Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 1 May 2025
  • Other creations focused on pushing the sliders in the character generator to the extreme, with heavily distorted features and proportions.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • However, a small telescope will be needed to resolve the galaxy's bright core, which is suspected to play host to a monstrous singularity 15 times the mass of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • It was published in 1969 and was a monstrous hit, spending 67 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and selling over 9 million copies in two years.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • All the players corroborate a truism: Politics attracts deformed personalities featuring an insatiable lust of power for the sake of power to fuel self-esteem.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2025
  • The most challenging character was the tall, green Creeper, which originated as a deformed pig because of a coding error.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Malformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malformed. Accessed 12 May. 2025.

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