Deformed
[dɪ'fɔːmd] or [dɪ'fɔrmd]
Definition
(adj.) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; 'deformed thalidomide babies'; 'his poor distorted limbs'; 'an ill-shapen vase'; 'a limp caused by a malformed foot'; 'misshapen old fingers' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Deform
(a.) Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.
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Examples
- As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We now number, with women and children, two hundred souls, and you will not find a deformed or lame person among the lot. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It was some relief when an aunt of the crétin, a kind old woman, came one day, and took away my strange, deformed companion. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He appeared to be deformed, for he carried his head low and walked with his knees bent. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- His uncle further declared that I was both deformed and ugly, which rendered his infatuation the more absurd. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Many are deformed, others maimed, while the majority, Thuvia explained, are sightless. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Deformed parents may have well-formed offspring. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The largeness of its features made it appear the most deformed animal that can be conceived. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- She had been surprised again, crying and looking at her deformed shoulder in the glass. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And then I strangled a new-born agony--a deformed thing which I could not persuade myself to own and rear--and ran on. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The two deformed girls had, I suppose, a kind of fellow-feeling for each other. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There are not such a very great number of civilians, and a deformed man was sure to have attracted attention. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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