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vääristynyt — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • antic noun A piece of foolish, playful or attention-seeking behaviour; usually used in the plural.
  • biased adj Unfairly favoring one side; showing prejudice.
  • misshapen adj Having an unnatural, awkward, or deformed shape.
  • skewed adj Tilted or twisted away from the expected straight line or angle.
  • twisted adj Bent, wound, or contorted out of its natural shape.

Senses

vääristynyt is used for these senses in English:

  • antic (archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
  • biased Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
  • misshapen Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen.
  • skewed (statistics, of information) Biased, distorted
  • twisted contorted

antic — full definition

  1. noun A piece of foolish, playful or attention-seeking behaviour; usually used in the plural.
  2. adjective Grotesque or absurd in an oddly theatrical way.

biased — full definition

  1. adj Unfairly favoring one side; showing prejudice.
  2. adj Weighted so that some outcomes are more likely than others.

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