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
Kansas City Star,
2 June 2026
First, New Englanders have a distorted view and expectation for what spring truly is.
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Terry Eliasen,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
15 June 2026
Risk tolerance becomes distorted.
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Anatoly Iofe,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Adjective
Sensitive plants may show leaf curling, distorted growth, discoloration, or even die from exposure to very small amounts of herbicide.
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Kansas City Star,
2 June 2026
First, New Englanders have a distorted view and expectation for what spring truly is.
—
Terry Eliasen,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
Verb
The irresponsible development and use of AI have allowed these to be hijacked and distorted, turning them into agents of harm.
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Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
15 June 2026
Risk tolerance becomes distorted.
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Anatoly Iofe,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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Plath shows up in Dederer’s book about (mostly) men who make great art and live monstrous lives (and what to do with them), but only as a woman who turns her violent tendencies against herself.
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Smiley slashes Mari across the belly and Fatima lets out a monstrous shriek.
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Federal prosecutors alleged Holmes knowingly misrepresented the capabilities of Theranos technology and misled investors about the company's financial condition, partnerships, and laboratory capabilities.
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Other videos also misrepresented the earnings users could have made on parallel bets, the Journal's report found.
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Some cells were mechanically deformed to simulate incidents such as minor parking impacts.
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Habermas was well aware of how the internet had deformed his beloved public sphere.
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But her sister’s head was grievously misshapen.
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For Paris in Miami, the real answers came from hormone tests and a semen analysis, which pointed to low morphology, or misshapen sperm.
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The wife of friend Isaac Leonard Ellwood suggested that two wires twisted together would hold the nail in place better — and the inexpensive yet effective design stuck.
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The boardwalk was annihilated up and down the peninsula, crushed into pieces and twisted up like a wooden snake.
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But then, at some point, the term got contorted to actually refer to people who were using sabotage or vandalism in defense of the environment.
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Starting with a tone-setting marvel early, Room contorted and unfurled himself to 15 saves — including several other stupefying ones.
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Sensitive data appears in unstructured documents, malformed files, collaboration tools and AI workflows that summarize, transform and combine information.
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Cinematographer Mátyás Erdély’s gaslamp wash makes the whole thing visually alluring, but the story up to this point is one of malformed double entendres, as Moulin and his cohorts react to more important plots unfolding elsewhere in the war.
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Pluverge, an ice cream maker at Taste the Tropics, came to the United States on asylum after he was kidnapped and tortured by gang members in his home country.
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This is just one in a sweaty dungeon of hundreds of TikTok videos that show women being stalked, grabbed, tortured, tossed to the ground, and handcuffed by scary masked soldiers.
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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