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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Popular on Variety These malformed moments are practically endless.
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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
But a malformed command in Python usually returns an error message that keeps the code from running, not something that fails brilliantly yet monstrously, outpacing its creators’ intentions.
—Tim Carmody, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025
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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
But a malformed command in Python usually returns an error message that keeps the code from running, not something that fails brilliantly yet monstrously, outpacing its creators’ intentions.
—Tim Carmody, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malformed
Adjective
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State House districts are so distorted that GOP candidates won 45% of the total vote for the Illinois House of Representatives in 2024 and just 34% of the seats.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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Over the years, the natural geography of the Hertz map became distorted as it was redesigned to present more information and make system transfers clearer.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
2 Apr. 2025
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The year’s top-of-the-line model placed a massive 7.4-liter LS6 engine under the hood that was capable of producing a monstrous 450 hp and 500 ft lbs of torque.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
14 Apr. 2025
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That virus could work like rabies and trigger an uncontrollable rage in infected people, like in 28 Days Later, or mutate people and animals into monstrous creatures like in Resident Evil.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Apr. 2025
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In the history play named for him, Richard III’s resentment, going back to having been a deformed and unloved child, makes more sense.—
Rachel Hadas,
The Conversation,
5 Feb. 2025
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Harnessing advanced manufacturing Charlotte, as a boat strike victim with air bubbles trapped under its deformed shell, was considered non-releasable and completely dependent on human care.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
21 Dec. 2024
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