Crossword-Solution: DISTORTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Distortion | n. | The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body. |
| Distortion | n. | A wresting from the true meaning. |
| Distortion | n. | The state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion. |
| Distortion | n. | An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity. |
We have 51 clues for the answer “DISTORTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wide-angle lens concern | 1 answer |
| BEING distorted | 1 answer |
| Travesty of a sort | 2 answers |
| DISTORTING | 4 answers |
| ASYMMETRY | 5 answers |
| BEING deformed | 6 answers |
| misinterpretation | 8 answers |
| FALSE pretence | 10 answers |
| Mendacity | 16 answers |
| inapplicability | 17 answers |
| abnormity | 17 answers |
| misshapen thing | 18 answers |
| ABERRANCE | 18 answers |
| weirdness | 19 answers |
| disfigurement | 24 answers |
| Malformation | 26 answers |
| irrelevance | 28 answers |
| misrepresentation | 29 answers |
| misshape | 30 answers |
| Deformity | 30 answers |
| monstrosity | 33 answers |
| irrelation | 36 answers |
| contortion | 46 answers |
| Fabrication | 48 answers |
| fiction | 49 answers |
| Scar | 49 answers |
| disproportion | 49 answers |
| flaw | 55 answers |
| Cant | 55 answers |
| Tarnish | 58 answers |
| Hallucination | 58 answers |
| irregularity | 59 answers |
| untruthfulness | 59 answers |
| in-consequence | 63 answers |
| Blotch | 64 answers |
| Wreckage | 65 answers |
| dissimulation | 65 answers |
| hypocrisy | 68 answers |
| exaggeration | 68 answers |
| misfit | 69 answers |
| curiosity | 72 answers |
| Oddity | 74 answers |
| Twist | 75 answers |
| Humbug! | 75 answers |
| blur | 75 answers |
| False-hood | 77 answers |
| fantasy | 77 answers |
| guile | 77 answers |
| equivocation | 79 answers |
| Imperfection | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DISTORTION (5)
Since the receipt of the missive in the morning, Boldwood had felt the spherical completeness of his existence heretofore to be slowly spreading into an abnormal distortion in the particular direction of an ideal passion.
Moral rights may include the right of an author to have his or her name on a work, the right of attribution, and the right to object to distortion or mutilation--the right of integrity.
Shall we then dispense with correction? The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.
The nearest resemblance to it that I know, is the distortion produced in your countenance when you look at it as reflected in a concave or convex surface—say, either side of a bright spoon.
And all this is gained only by human strife and longing; by ceaseless training and education; by founding Right on righteousness and Truth on the unhampered search for Truth; by founding the common school on the university, and the industrial school on the common school; and weaving thus a system, not a distortion, and bringing a birth, not an abortion.
Quotes with DISTORTION (3)
A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.
Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1982–2003).