Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a deformed or disfiguring manner.
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Examples
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Then hee suffereth his haire to growe and hang downe vpon his shoulders, couering his face as ugly and deformedly as he can.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_Thump, _ they go, and _thump_ -- dully, deformedly.
Profiles from China Eunice Tietjens 1914
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In emblematic gorgeousness hung the pictures of the four Seasons, buxom wenches all, save Winter, who was deformedly bodied forth in the likeness of an aged carle.
Paul Clifford — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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In emblematic gorgeousness hung the pictures of the four Seasons, buxom wenches all, save Winter, who was deformedly bodied forth in the likeness of an aged carle.
Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Then hee suffereth his haire to growe and hang downe vpon his shoulders, couering his face as ugly and deformedly as he can.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Also they use black and white paints; and make one part of their face of one colour; and another, of another, very deformedly.
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The Medlar-Tree grows deformedly, twelve er fifteen feet high, or more, or - namented
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'Had God,' wrote Milton, 'intended that we should have sought any part of useful instruction from Ignatius, doubtless He would not have so ill-provided for our knowledge as to send him to our hands in this broken and disjointed plight; and if He intended no such thing, we do injuriously in thinking to taste better the pure evangelic manna by seasoning our mouths with the tainted scraps and fragments from an unknown table, and searching among the verminous and polluted rags dropped overworn from the toiling shoulders of Time, with these deformedly to quilt and interlace the entire, the spotless, and undecaying robe of Truth.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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