Distorted and Grotesque

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Distorted adjective - Badly or imperfectly formed.

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Grotesque is a synonym for distorted in hideous topic. In some cases you can use "Grotesque" instead an adjective "Distorted".

Nearby Words: distortion, distorting, distorter

Grotesque adjective - Disagreeable to one's aesthetic or artistic sense.

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Distorted is a synonym for grotesque in unnatural topic. You can use "Distorted" instead an adjective "Grotesque", if it concerns topics such as hideous, ugly, deformed, malformed.

Nearby Word: grotesquely

Facial Horror: Sadako and Samara's victims their faces are frozen in grotesque, silent screams (and, in the case of Samara's victims, their faces are distorted and look like they've been rotting for some time).

Source: Literature / The Ring
Red Right Hand: Zigzagged with the Penguin himself; though his pallor and build are probably due to his lifestyle, his pronounced nose and distorted hands (middle, ring and pinky fingers fused into grotesque "flippers") fit the trope.

Source: Film / Batman Returns
And I Must Scream: Mainly the Food Creature (see Let's Meet the Meat, below), a grotesque mountain of flesh and fat with distorted, but still human-like features, and many of the book's altered humans that have become worker drones, maintenance units or transportation.

Source: Literature / Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future

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