A twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting.

synonym: deflection.

Roget 279: deviation; swerving etc. v.; obliquation^†, warp, refraction; flection^†, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure^†; declination.    diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence etc. 291; zigzag; detour etc. (circuit) 629; divagation.    [Desultory motion] wandering etc. v.; vagrancy, evagation^†; bypaths and crooked ways; byroad.    [Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling etc. v.; knight's move at chess.    ... show more

Roget 481: misjudgment, obliquity of judgment; miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception etc. (error) 495; hasty conclusion.    [causes of misjudgment. 1] prejudgment, prejudication^†, prejudice; foregone conclusion; prenotion^†, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension^†, presumption, assumption, presentiment; fixed idea, preconceived idea; id_ee fixe; mentis gratissimus error [Lat.]; fool's paradise.    [causes of misjudgment. 2] esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship, clannishness, prestige.    [causes of misjudgment. 3] bias, bigotry, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye.    [causes of misjudgment. 4] one-sided views, one-track mind, partial views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas, partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined notions, superficial notions; narrow mind; bigotry etc. (obstinacy) 606; odium theologicum [Lat.]; pedantry; hypercriticism.    doctrinaire etc. (positive) 474.    [causes of misjudgment. 5] overestimation etc. 482; underestimation etc. 483.    [causes of misjudgment. 6] ignorance etc. 491.    erroneous assumptions, erroneous data, mistaken assumptions, incorrect assumptions (error) 495.    ... show more

Polish: wypaczenie

A shape distorted by twisting or folding.

synonym: buckle.

Dutch: scheeftrekking, vervorming, schering

A moral or mental distortion.

synonym: warping.

Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof.

Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story.

synonyms: distort, falsify, garble.

Roget 267: sail; put to sea etc. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the waters.    navigate, warp, luff^†, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.    ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.    swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer [Fr.], dive, wade.    fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.    ... show more

Roget 279: alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve etc. 245; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe^†, wear.    intervert^†; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp.    stray, straggle; sidle; diverge etc. 291; tralineate^†; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.    fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle etc. (oscillate) 314; go out of one's way etc. (perform a circuit) 629; lose one's way.    ... show more

Roget 481: misjudge, misestimate, misthink^†, misconjecture^†, misconceive etc. (error) 495; fly in the face of facts; miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute.    overestimate etc. 482; underestimate etc. 483.    prejudge, forejudge; presuppose, presume, prejudicate^†; dogmatize; have a bias etc. n.; have only one idea; jurare in verba magistri [Lat.], run away with the notion; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion, leap to a conclusion, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions; look only at one side of the shield; view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles; not see beyond one's nose; dare pondus fumo [Lat.]; get the wrong sow by the ear etc. (blunder) 699.    give a bias, give a twist; bias, warp, twist; prejudice, prepossess.    ... show more

Roget 195: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease etc. 36; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay etc. (deteriorate) 659.    be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to etc. (be inferior) 34.    render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate^†; boil down; constrict, constringe^†; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf^†; shorten etc. 201; circumscribe etc. 229; restrain etc. 751.    [reduce in size by abrasion or paring. ] (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.    ... show more

Roget 140: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert^†; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.    work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume^†; metamorphose, ring the changes.    innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf.    recast etc. 146; reverse etc. 218; disturb etc. 61; convert into etc. 144.    ... show more

Roget 243: distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.   

Dutch: verminken

Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat.

synonyms: buckle, heave.

Dutch: kromtrekken, trekken