contorted
2
6.4
- adjective
- /kənˈtɔrtɪd/
:
contorsionado
- Machiavellian. When his father answered, his seamed, sagging face was strangely contorted, as if he were suppressing a guffaw.
- contorted face
- contorted body
- contorted position
Especially since love gets so contorted by the narcissistic relationship.
- Especially since love gets so contorted by the narcissistic relationship.
- But their legs are all contorted and shit.
- Leonardo's drawings are just spectacular, with horses having their faces contorted and rage and everything else.
- And all of a sudden, this evil leaves him and his face stops being contorted and it gets smooth.
- Old folks perpetually dozing, hunched, contorted in their wheelchairs, face as pale as frozen pie crusts.
- Like this vilification of capitalism and investors is so backwards and contorted.
- Alzheimer's sunk old folks, those and hunched, contorted in their wheelchairs, chairs, face as pale as frozen pie crust.
- You can either choose to believe or choose not to believe because everything else is so fucking contorted and twisted and decept.
- Then that's where he does not do well because you look at that face and it gets it gets contorted.
Examples
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The skin was white and shriveled from being in the water, his features tight and horribly contorted.
Fiction book (2000) -
The maniac howls at his failure, his features even more horribly contorted.
Fiction book (1991) -
Her face is all contorted, angry, out of control.
Fiction book (1999) -
And all of a sudden, this evil leaves him and his face stops being contorted and it gets smooth.
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I looked up and saw Kira's contorted face.
Fiction book (1993) -
I hadn't seen such a contorted expression on his face since the party.
Fiction book (1991) -
Lily is wailing, her arms stretched toward the turtle, tears streaming down her contorted red face.
Fiction book (2002) -
His face (of course) was different, puffy, contorted, and there were wires and tubes everywhere.
Blog text (12) -
Old folks perpetually dozing, hunched, contorted in their wheelchairs, face as pale as frozen pie crusts.
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Lily is wailing, her arms stretched toward the turtle, tears streaming down her contorted red face.
Synonyms
58
2.5
Not straight in shape, like a path or a smile
21
1.0
Not straight in shape because it was pushed or folded
1
5.1
Bent out of shape by water or heat
Twisted out of shape so it looks ugly or unnatural
Having a shape that is not normal and often looking ugly
How Twisted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Contorted comes from Latin parts con- ('together') and torquere ('to twist'), so it originally meant 'twisted together'. You can see the same 'twist' idea in English words like torture, so contorted now describes something bent or twisted out of shape, often from pain or struggle.