distorted

distorted
    adj 1: so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed
           thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-
           shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot";
           "misshapen old fingers" [syn: {deformed}, {distorted},
           {ill-shapen}, {malformed}, {misshapen}]
    2: having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many
       of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality";
       "a perverted translation of the poem" [syn: {distorted},
       {misrepresented}, {perverted}, {twisted}]
    

Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distorted}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Distorting}.]
   1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside
      physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
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            Whose face was distorted with pain.   --Thackeray.
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   2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to
      twist aside mentally or morally.
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            Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and
            distort the understandings of men.    --Tillotson.
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   3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort
      passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

   Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert.
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164 Moby Thesaurus words for "distorted":
      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, heretical, heterodox,
      illegitimate, illogical, illusory, imitation, inflective,
      irregular, junky, keloidal, kinked, 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