| 单词 | contorted |
| 释义 | contorted (once / 5925 pages) adj Use the adjective contorted to describe something that's twisted or misshapen. If your face is contorted with frustration as you build a model sailboat, you’re furrowing your brows and wrinkling your nose — and should probably find a new hobby. Things can be physically contorted, like a twisting mountain trail, or figuratively contorted, like a biased magazine article. A story can get contorted as well. The more times you tell people the tale of your bike crash, the more it changes, until in the end you're telling a pretty contorted version in which the bike is a motorcycle and the lamp post is a pack of rabid dogs. WORD FAMILYcontorted: contortedly+/contort: contorted, contorting, contortion, contorts/contortion: contortionist, contortions/contortionist: contortionists USAGE EXAMPLES“There are innumerable images of candidates seemingly contorted in expression or gesture,” the artist said. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) For several months after that debacle, Democrats contorted themselves in self-examination. The Guardian(Nov 29, 2016) His somber tones and cubist, contorted figures have poetic energy but also a tension that echoed my unease. Wall Street Journal(Nov 23, 2016) adj twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) his mad contorted smile Syn writhed, writhen crooked having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned |
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