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distortion

Roget category 243

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2.3. Form
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#243. [Irregularity of form.] Distortion

noun

distortion, detortion, contortiontwist, crookedness etc. (obliquity) 217grimacedeformitymalformation, malconformationharelipmonstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosisugliness etc. 846talipesteratology.
asymmetryirregularity.

verb

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

adjective

distorted etc. v. — out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crookednot true, not straighton one side, crump, deformedharelippedmisshapen, misbegottenmisproportioned, ill proportionedill-madegrotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horncamel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backedbandybandy legged, bow leggedbow kneed, knock kneedsplay footed, club footedround shoulderedsnub nosedcurtailed of one's fair proportionsstumpy etc. (short) 201gaunt etc. (thin) 203bloated etc. 194scalenesimoustaliped, talipedic.

adverb

all manner of ways.

phrase

crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].

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