warped

adjective

ˈwȯrpt

Synonyms of warped next

: twisted out of a natural or normal shape

a warped board

Before polishing began, warped panels were straightened and stripes of new wood added to compensate for shrinkage …—

Helen Dudar

He was told he had a warped cornea due to surgery that had been performed years before.—

B. J. Pollock

: eccentrically weird or strange

a warped sense of humor

: disturbingly abnormal or distorted

At his office one afternoon, he told me that he blames warped values for the drop in international-news coverage …—

Ken Auletta

Is it a country of great natural resources and human talent, caught in the grip of a warped dictator?—

Thomas L. Friedman

"He took an oath as a Klansman, and he has this really warped, romantic notion of a sacred vow he can never violate."—

John Grisham

Examples of warped in a Sentence

tired of his sick jokes and warped sense of humor

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These claims are usually unsubstantiated, cause consumers to have a warped idea of an ideal pet diet, and cause health issues for their four-legged friends. —

Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025 All the while the wind howled without remorse, coercing the leafless limbs of maples and oaks into a kind of warped dance. —

Hazlitt, 9 Dec. 2024 But these warped stories conveyed the impression that southern slavery was a humane system of human relations year round. —

Robert E. May / Made By History, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024 This Hubble image features Arp 122, a galaxy that actually comprises two vast galaxies colliding with each other—NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy at left, and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral galaxy at right. —

Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for warped