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
Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
Though intensely disturbing, a scene where a TV shows a distorted iteration of a character that Ohm watched as a kid rings out of place, even if the context involves his mother’s tragic passing.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2026
Time in that video is completely distorted; events that are about to happen are referred to in the past tense.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
Over the course of her time in the program, Mel has gravitated toward bold creative choices, often working with distorted imagery, expressive sound design, and symbolic visual storytelling to communicate ideas in unconventional ways.
—Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026
Though intensely disturbing, a scene where a TV shows a distorted iteration of a character that Ohm watched as a kid rings out of place, even if the context involves his mother’s tragic passing.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
Verb
Some of the new generation is riffing on that in trying to be as distorted as possible just for the sake of it.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2026
Time in that video is completely distorted; events that are about to happen are referred to in the past tense.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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But the movie's radical makeovers of the ethereal Ariel and monstrous Caliban offer rather more justification for the movie's status as a bona fide sci-fi classic.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Sayell and drummer Jack Egglestone sound monstrous here, the late Steve Albini still seemingly present a quarter-century after producing and engineering Do Dallas.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
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Following the revelation that Immigration and Customs Enforcement misrepresented its authority to arrest people in immigration court, Congressman Dan Goldman Friday demanded ICE and the Department of Homeland Security provide a full accounting of everyone swept up by the aggressive practice.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Attorney Abbe Lowell, representing the Fulton County officials, pushed back on the assertion that the omissions to the warrant application were minimal, arguing the FBI misrepresented key information.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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The mountains themselves are too deformed to hold hydrocarbons.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2026
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Hadi tells an engaging story, brings complex and surprising characters to life, lends a locale an aesthetic iconography, and renders personal identity inextricable from the forces of history that shaped or deformed it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Give them rich soil, adding in compost for a nutrient boost, and deep, consistent watering to prevent bitter, misshapen fruit.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
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The disease causes bitter, misshapen fruit unsuitable for sale or eating; infected trees eventually die, according to the CDFA.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
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Emerald green steel tracks twisted overhead.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Gomez parted her hair in the center and pulled the lengths up, twisted them, and clipped her hair with a medium-sized sheer white claw clip and wrapping some of the lengths over the top of the clip.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
20 Mar. 2026
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Egon Schiele’s show at the Neue Galerie suggests that the artist’s raw, contorted depictions of the body were influenced by a formative relationship with a doctor.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2026
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Cross-country skiing is known for its attrition, an event that leaves its competitors foam-mouthed and slack-jawed; athletes of iron reduced to trembling and contorted shapes on the floor.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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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.—
J.m. Hirsch,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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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
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Bundy tortured, raped and killed dozens of young women in more than half a dozen states in the 1970s.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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Estimates suggest that as many as 1,900 Jews were abducted, tortured and murdered by the military junta during the six-year Dirty War, when many sources say 30,000 people were disappeared.—
Juan Melamed,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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