malformed

Example Sentences

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The condition leaves the right ventricle diseased and the tricuspid valve is malformed so it leaks.

From BBC

Since roughly the 1920s, farmers had known of a confounding disease that threatened their potatoes, leaving them shrunken and malformed and reducing the size of a crop by 50 percent or more.

From Washington Post

These include malformed arms and legs with limited functionality, spina bifida, struggles with mental health and arrested intellectual development.

From Washington Post

Caliban, Prospero’s malformed lackey, has been reclaimed by postcolonial critics as an example of an oppressed “other,” an enslaved man whose dignity has been denied by European imperialists.

From Los Angeles Times

In the photos posted online, one or more of these pins appear malformed.

From BBC