as in distorted
badly or imperfectly formed
a clay sculpture of an eagle that was so malformed that it looked more like a feathered football
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Recent Examples of malformed
Ina Park, a spokeswoman for the expo’s Korean pavilion, was eager to introduce Balance Grow’s Fried Calamari Snack, which looked like slightly malformed Utz Potato Stix.
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J.m. Hirsch,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
Now imagine that instead of writing tweets, a malformed AI model would be producing military advice or making military decisions.
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Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
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.
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Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Dec. 2025
Legacy filters looking for malware or malformed links see nothing amiss.
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IEEE Spectrum,
27 Oct. 2025
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J.m. Hirsch,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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
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
Legacy filters looking for malware or malformed links see nothing amiss.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malformed
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Through a slurry of distorted guitars and deadpan singing, the album brushes against grief, addiction, and abandonment through a layer of gauzy nonchalance.
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Latvian intelligence argues that Putin is not only looking for ways to pressure NATO countries to back off Ukraine, but may also be receiving distorted assessments from inside his own system — raising the risk that Russia could misjudge Western resolve.
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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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Its deformed and empty boxes appeared to have been crushed under a landslide of green checks.
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Nicola said three of the four turkeys were rescue animals with deformed feet that had been sitting on eggs when they were taken.
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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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“Malformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malformed. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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