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contorted

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of contort

adjective more contorted · most contorted

  1. Twisted; screwed up. We called at some more places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death and trade goes on in a still and earthy atmosphere as of an overheated catacomb; all along the formless coast bordered by dangerous surf, as if Nature herself had tried to ward off intruders; in and out of rivers, stre

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@misc{contorted_2026,
  title = {contorted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/contorted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}