contortion; twist, crookedness &c (obliquity) 217; grimace; deformity;
malformation, malconformation†; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion†,
want of symmetry, anamorphosis†; ugliness &c 846; talipes†; teratology.
asymmetry; irregularity.
V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform,
misshape.
Adj. distorted &c v.; out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric†,
awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump†,
deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned†, ill
proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn;
camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed;
bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed,
club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair
proportions; stumpy &c (short) 201; gaunt &c (thin) 203; bloated &c
194; scalene; simous†; taliped†, talipedic†.
Adv. all manner of ways.
Phr. crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].