This report gives a somewhat distorted impression of what actually happened.
We have a distorted belief that we are more ethical than we really are.
Because of a distorted body image, she feels that she's always overweight even when she is underweight.
2 If a sound produced on electrical equipment is distorted, it sounds strange and unpleasant because of changes in the shape of the sound wave:
3 changed, especially in a way that makes something worse than it was before:
He saw a distorted image of his face in the metallic surface.
The extreme sentiments described in the article are a distorted description of the general mood.
People who are mentally ill tend to interpret events in a distorted way.
The sound is all distorted.
He modernised the sound with a distorted electric guitar.
