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Distort meaning

To bring something out of shape, to misshape. | To become misshapen. | To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.

Example sentences (20)

As a result, the intricate details of your tattoo may blur or distort, altering the original design’s clarity.

But it feels like it never quite reaches its full potential because it hasn’t been woven tightly enough: the fibers sag and distort and never really seem to hold together as a single item.

Hackers sponsored by the Russian government ran wild on Twitter to distort the national dialogue.

He said that since appearing on the coronation panel, he had seen “people in the media lie and distort” his words, and had faced surging racial abuse on social media, directed at both him and his wife.

In particular, the state-controlled media seek to emphasize that foreign forces have often taken advantage of the country’s diverse demography to seek ways to distort and dampen the party-state’s policies for their political purposes.

In the world where some don’t stand on principle but chasing after opportunity, and along the way in chase of opportunity distort private conversations and expose their disordered nerves.

It is an example of how in a network, the structure may distort an individual’s local observations.

Most organizations, whether intentionally or unintentionally, exaggerate, distort and spin various facts to support their point of view.

One of our family traditions is to wear three-dimensional eyeglasses that distort our candle flames into funny shapes.

One of the reasons so many people distrust the “experts” on this issue, as with many others, is the willingness to distort the facts and invent reasons to implement unpopular policies that they nonetheless want.

P. It is the one that can most distort the equality of each partner in the same market, due to its different capacity for public support, especially in the North-South line.

The fund’s attorneys in court papers have said Blum wants to “distort the purpose and text of this seminal civil rights statute to use it against Black people” to dismantle this grant program.

The power and position garnered by badge and bullets—symbols of the Blue—distort a commitment to public service and safety by conflating their professional and personal identities, often allowing the former to overwhelm, even displace the latter.

This is why the collaboration of the Presidential Campaign Council of the PDP with a violent faction of the APC, attempts to distort the peace in an otherwise peaceful State, has been revealed.

When we distort the teachings of Torah for our own purposes, we may be alive, but we are not really living.

A common practice of LGBTQ sponsors is to use the film industry to distort the perception of people.

And an agenda to distort reality.

As a scholar deeply attentive to the power of media to both inform and distort, McLeod centers his teaching in an abiding concern for creating ethical communication serving the public interest.

Certainly, we are living in an information age where it is easy to distort truth for one’s own purposes.

Harris refused to comment directly on the report but was then asked if he was worried about threats to politicians ahead of the general election to which he replied that we shouldn’t allow "a small group of people to distort who we are as a people".