(a.) Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.
(a.) Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obama warned “a contorted reading of the statute” could mean that “millions of people who are obtaining insurance currently with subsidies, suddenly aren’t getting those subsidies, many of them can’t afford it”.
(2) The term dystonia was introduced by Oppenheim and Vogt in 1911 to describe the relatively slow, sustained, frequently forceful contorting movements involving striatal muscles.
(3) The most famous image of suffering in the Renaissance was an ancient statue dug up in 1506 of the pagan priest Laocoön being strangled by snakes , his face a contorted image of pure suffering.
(4) For in situ hybridization on cytogenetic preparations, the results are excellent, but the procedure is contorted and the probe use is increased.
(5) Sprawling across 110 hectares on the outskirts of Milan, this crazed collage of undulating tents, tilting green walls and parametrically-contorted lumps can mean only one thing: Expo 2015, latest in a long and controversial tradition of “world’s fairs”, has landed.
(6) He had also grown disillusioned with his own role as a propagandist, his contorted attempt to distinguish between 'honest' and 'dishonest' propaganda evidently having failed.
(7) Take out the contortions, exaggerations and outright lies from the standard Trump riff – and you have next to nothing.
(8) Putin’s face has contorted and smoothed out so much that it’s at times unrecognisable.
(9) The substance of his argument was contorted and at times contradictory, but as a leader rather than an individual he had no choice but to be opaque as he sought to keep his party united.
(10) Thus it increased the bulging of endothelial cells and contortion of their nuclei, and further increased the number of surface protrusions and the subendothelial space.
(11) Since then, Putin's face has contorted and smoothed out so much that it's at times unrecognisable.
(12) We investigated the participation of a sympathetic component in the abdominal contortions induced by intraperitoneal injection of 0.6% acetic acid in the mouse.
(13) I was ashamed of having married so early, ashamed of how strange and singular my marriage had been, ashamed of my guilt about it, ashamed of the years of moral contortions I'd undergone on my way to divorce, ashamed of my sexual inexperience, ashamed of what an outrageous and judgmental mother I had, ashamed of being a bleeding and undefended person instead of a tower of remoteness and command and intellect like DeLillo or Pynchon, ashamed to be writing a book that seemed to want to turn on the question of whether an outrageous midwestern mother will get one last Christmas at home with her family.
(14) Suddenly, free from contortions of caution, they can bring us the simple truth.
(15) There were no statistically significant correlations to any of the following parameters: complication of pregnancy by toxaemia, duration of labour, presence of umbilical cord contortion, perinatal distress, Apgar index, mode of delivery, body weight, body length, ratio of weight to length, and blood glucose.
(16) On addition of ATP and other hydrolysable nucleotides the microtubule bundle contorts into a helical configuration, a property we have called 'corkscrewing', before straightening again.
(17) Signs of infection in 20 snakes included subcutaneous "lumps," violent contortions, and bloody exudate, apparently from the nares.
(18) Jo Appleby, the bones expert who excavated the skeleton and has worked on it for months, said it was contorted by scoliosis, which set in some time after he was 10, from an unknown cause.
(19) Suddenly, the election campaign is awash with the main parties' contorted version of political geography: proof, once you've got through the usual fog of Westminster language, that 13 years of Labour government have left the UK's regional, national – and fundamentally economic – divisions all too intact.
(20) I didn't take much notice at the time, but just writing that sentence makes my face contort with outrage.
Perverted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Pervert
Example Sentences:
(1) He denies perverting the course of justice by asking his then wife Vicky Pryce to take speeding penalty points onto her driving licence.
(2) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(3) Indonesia’s largest Muslim group, Nahdlatul Ulama, in February described gay lifestyles as perverted and a desecration of human dignity.
(4) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(5) On the face of it, Huhne's guilty plea last month on a charge of perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case ought to have killed the Liberal Democrats' hopes of holding the seat.
(6) Following an eight-month trial, Brooks was in June cleared at the Old Bailey of conspiring to hack phones, illegal payments to a public official and perverting the course of justice.
(7) For instance Alive appealed to young men who liked true adventure stories, but my next book, Polonaise , was a novel about a sexually perverted Polish intellectual.
(8) Milonov later tweeted that "completely boycotting" the show was not necessary, but said the "pervert from Austria" should be excluded.
(9) The pair were given identical jail terms for perverting the course of justice on Monday afternoon following a sentencing and mitigation hearing at which they spent almost three hours sitting just over a metre apart in the dock without acknowledging the other's presence.
(10) Jimmy Savile was left free to sexually attack nearly 70 victims, including one five-year-old, over half a century in his home city of Leeds despite rumours among local police officers that he was a "pervert".
(11) Sampson recommended that the junior officer who had carried out the destruction be granted immunity from prosecution in return for giving evidence against the MI5 chief and his deputy, whom he believed should be prosecuted for “doing an act with intent and tending to pervert the course of public justice”.
(12) Six others face one charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, including her husband Charlie, her former personal assistant Cheryl Carter and her ex-chauffeur Paul Edwards.
(13) He directed them to acquit Payne of manslaughter and of intending to pervert the course of justice.
(14) We are going to mourn our dead ... but tomorrow, we will kiss each other like the abominable perverts we are,” journalist Luc Vaillant said in a column published in the left-wing newspaper Libération.
(15) He was found guilty in his absence in 2008 for theft, furnishing false information and perverting the course of justice after being accused of perpetrating a £36m fraud.
(16) Dave Small, who was elected to Redditch borough council on Friday, faces being kicked out of the party for referring to gay people as "perverts" and African immigrants as "scroungers".
(17) Here we have an allegation of suborning witnesses and perverting the course of justice.
(18) Fillery is arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
(19) Fulford is the presiding judge in the trial scheduled for later this year in which former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks faces charges of perverting the course of justice.
(20) So hopefully that makes it clear, I would never support Manchester United but I would pretend to be a pervert dad having sex with an imaginary adult daughter.