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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
distort .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly
- adjective having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
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Examples
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I'd rather have the title distorted or letter boxed, if I get around to it, I will fix it in the script.
Planet Debian 2010
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Esperanza Cabral defends the Philippines 'price controls as a way to rectify what she called a distorted market where drug companies have been able to set their own prices with little fear of competition.
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Tuesday expressed concern at what he called the distorted manner in which the Democratic Party had raised issues on the expenditure of his department.
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But he warned of a European "climate of Islamophobia" and stigmatization of Muslims fed by what he called distorted "caricatures" of their faith.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed SUSAN SACHS 2011
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The chief Palestinian negotiator said Wednesday the Arab satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera is inciting against him and putting his life at risk with what he described as a distorted presentation of Palestinian positions in talks with Israel.
The Seattle Times 2011
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The chief Palestinian negotiator said Wednesday the Arab satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera is inciting against him and putting his life at risk with what he described as a distorted presentation of Palestinian positions in talks with Israel.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Since then, South Korea's defence ministry has brought out new orders banning beating, cruelty, humiliation and bullying within the armed forces, to tackle what it calls a "distorted military culture".
BBC News - Home 2011
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Officials are now keen to improve what they call the distorted image of Malaysian justice.
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Incentivizing quality will result in distorted, i.e. suboptimal practices in health care.
Wonk Room » Cost Containment Will Require Government Action 2009
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This is distorted from the Campaign There is too much lies in (both) Clinton, then and now.
Related Words
synonyms (167)
Words with the same meaning
- aberrant
- abroad
- adrift
- affected
- all abroad
- all off
- all wrong
- amiss
- anamorphous
- apocryphal
- artificial
- askew
- assumed
- astray
- asymmetric
- at fault
- awry
- bastard
- bent
- beside the mark
- blemished
- bogus
- bowed
- brummagem
- catachrestic
- checked
- cicatrized
- cockeyed
- colorable
- colored
- contorted
- corrupt
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- cracked
- crazed
- crazy
- crooked
- crumpled
- crunched
- deceptive
- defaced
- defective
- deflected
- deflective
- deformed
- delusive
- deviant
- deviational
- deviative
- diffracted
- diffractive
- diffuse
- diffused
- disfigured
- dispersed
- dressed up
- dummy
- eisegetical
- embellished
- embroidered
- errant
- erring
- erroneous
- ersatz
- factitious
- fake
- faked
- fallacious
- false
- falsified
- faultful
- faulty
- feigned
- fictitious
- fictive
- flawed
- flectional
- flexed
- garbled
- gnarled
- gordian
- heretical
- heterodox
- illegitimate
- illogical
- illusory
- imitation
- inflective
- irregular
- junky
- keloidal
- kinked
- knotted
- labyrinthine
- lopsided
- make-believe
- man-made
- marred
- misapprehended
- misconceived
- misconstrued
- misinterpreted
- misread
- mistaken
- misunderstood
- mock
- nonsymmetric
- not right
- not true
- off
- off the track
- one-sided
- out
- peccant
- perverse
- perverted
- phony
- pimpled
- pimply
- pinchbeck
- pretended
- pseudo
- put-on
- quasi
- queer
- refracted
- refractile
- refractive
- refrangible
- scabbed
- scabby
- scarified
- scarred
- scattered
- self-contradictory
- self-styled
- sham
- shoddy
- simulated
- skew
- skewed
- so-called
- soi-disant
- split
- sprung
- spurious
- straying
- supposititious
- synthetic
- tin
- tinsel
- titivated
- tortuous
- twisted
- unauthentic
- unfactual
- ungenuine
- unnatural
- unorthodox
- unproved
- unreal
- unsymmetric
- untrue
- warped
- wide
- wrong
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