malformed

Example Sentences

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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

He said he was stepping down to join his wife in Maine, where she has been helping their daughter’s family care for a 2-year-old grandson born with a malformed heart.

From Washington Post

He made his name with his antic short stories — fables, really — thronged with suicides, amputations, broken men: “the malformed detritus of capitalism, the necessary cost of doing business.”

From New York Times

The disease is spread by malformed proteins called prions, like those that cause mad cow disease and the related human infection called Creutzfelt-Jacob disease.

From Washington Times

She ended the pregnancy at six months after being told the foetus was malformed and unlikely to survive the full term.

From The Guardian