All 12 Uses of
distort
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Every feature was working in her utterly distorted face.†
Chpt 3 *
- "You are not ill-natured, but distorted," said Alyosha with a smile.†
Chpt 4
- Look at the worldly and all who set themselves up above the people of God, has not God's image and His truth been distorted in them?†
Chpt 6
- Interpreting freedom as the multiplication and rapid satisfaction of desires, men distort their own nature, for many senseless and foolish desires and habits and ridiculous fancies are fostered in them.†
Chpt 6
- "He has sent for me," she cried, her face white and distorted, with a wan smile; "he whistles!†
Chpt 7
- If he used Russian words, he always distorted them into a Polish form.†
Chpt 8
- Don't you want to write it down?" said Mitya, with a distorted smile.†
Chpt 9
- "No, you have a charming nature, though it's been distorted, and I quite understand why you have had such an influence on this generous, morbidly sensitive boy," Alyosha answered warmly.†
Chpt 10
- Her face was distorted.†
Chpt 11
- Are you raving?" said Ivan, with a pale, distorted smile.†
Chpt 11
- On the contrary, he would have tried to conceal it, to distort the facts or minimize them.†
Chpt 12
- But he was far from distorting or minimizing them.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way