deformity

IPA: dɪfˈɔrmʌti

Examples of "deformity" in Sentences

I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness.
Constrained, therefore, to behold objects in their more genuine hues, their deformity is by degrees less painful to us.
Lene Andersen at The Seated View thinks about self-image versus objectivity and the words -- like "deformity" -- that can cut.
They are allowed to lie in this hard cradle, always in the same position, flattening the back of their little heads till the deformity is quite pronounced and lifelong.
My mother, who didn't have as much to deal with as you do, nonetheless had what is politely called a "deformity"--and in certain closed-in spaces like elevators got the same treatment.
To claim that removal of deformity is purely cosmetic is not only obviously preposterous, but it is ultimately a more expensive tab for the short sighted insurance industry to deny coverage.
The special meaning here attached to the term deformity is sufficiently explained in the preceding paragraph; it remains to give a few illustrations, and to refer to other headings, such as Heterotaxy,
Shakespeare, whose mind was more intent upon notions than words, had in his thoughts the pulchritude of virtue, and the deformity of wickedness; and though he had mentioned _wickedness_, made the correlative answer to _deformity_.