Roget's Thesaurus

#243. Distortion

Nouns

distortion, detortion, contortion; twist, crookedness etc. (obliquity) 217; grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis; ugliness etc. 846; talipes; teratology. asymmetry; irregularity.

Verbs

distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.

Adjectives

distorted etc. 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 etc. (short) 201; gaunt etc. (thin) 203; bloated etc. 194; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic.

Adverbs

all manner of ways.

Phrases

crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].