Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a distorted manner; crookedly.
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- adverb In a
distorted way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dancing Brave, the multifaceted colt distortedly remembered for his infamous Derby defeat, had carried Abdullah's silks.
Frankel has potential to justify claims of greatness | Lydia Hislop 2011
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Kelley is by herself, distortedly half-rapping two songs, "Bull Run" and "When You Were Born".
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The last of the theater workers 'cars left, loud rock music blaring distortedly from speakers that were not meant to handle such volume, and now the parking lot was empty save for an abandoned pickup at the far end.
Baby Games Chelsea White 2010
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Blank space is like a vacuum, begging to be filled, in this instance with opportunities for the Hillary camp to distortedly spread lies about Obama's positions and history.
Hillary Rolls Out Legislation To Oppose Long-Term Agreements With Iraq 2009
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- What could they possibly think of us, this jury of the faceless billions of whose very existence Americans are but dimly (if distortedly) aware?
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Simultaneously with that explicit apprehension, we distortedly cognize a mental aspect representing true existence imputably knowable on the basis of the hand.
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Simultaneously with that explicit apprehension, we distortedly cognize, on the basis of the hand, a mental aspect representing existence as an external object.
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Forced into action by the tortured mind, the muscles of the lower face, which had never moved yet, were moving distortedly now.
Armadale 2003
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There is an atmosphere of imagination in it, the action is quick, and the characters are strongly though distortedly drawn.
Balzac 2003
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Disastrous self-destructive actions regarding a spiritual teacher fall into three categories: (1) building a disciple-mentor relationship with a misleading teacher, (2) disbelieving the good qualities that one's mentor actually has, and thinking with a distorted, antagonistic attitude about them, and (3) relating distortedly to one's properly qualified mentor.
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