All 5 Uses of
distort
in
Anna Karenina
- They pounce on the idea, and distort it, and then work it out so pettily and unworthily.†
Part 1 *
- All one has to do is not spoil children, not to distort their nature, and they'll be delightful.†
Part 3
- "You've simply borrowed an idea that's not your own, but you've distorted it, and are trying to apply it where it's not applicable."†
Part 3
- She had broadened out all over, and in her face at the time when she was speaking of the actress there was an evil expression of hatred that distorted it.†
Part 4
- In the place where it had been was something that was fearful in its strained distortion and in the sounds that came from it.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way