All 3 Uses of
contort
in
David Copperfield
- At last I rose to go to bed, much to the relief of the sleepy waiter, who had got the fidgets in his legs, and was twisting them, and hitting them, and putting them through all kinds of contortions in his small pantry.†
Chpt 19-21
- 'My Agnes!' he exclaimed, with a sickly, angular contortion of himself.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- For anything that I can perceive to the contrary, it is still probable that my children may be reduced to seek a livelihood by personal contortion, while Mrs. Micawber abets their unnatural feats by playing the barrel-organ.'†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(contort) twist or bend to an unnatural shape -- something such as the human body, a facial expression, or the truth