The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deformity \De*form"i*ty\, n.; pl. Deformities. [L. deformitas, fr. deformis: cf. OF. deformet['e], deformit['e], F. difformit['e]. See Deform, v. & a., and cf. Disformity.]
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The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.
To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body.
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Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character.
Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of deformity English)
Usage examples of "deformities".
Strangely enough, the house they point out to you now as his, has been turned into a leper hospital, and the inmates expose their horrid deformities and hold up their hands and beg for bucksheesh when a stranger enters.
I’ve been checking up on sperm deformities, and it seems the most likely cause is radiation.
I've been checking up on sperm deformities, and it seems the most likely cause is radiation.
The authority lent Miles by his uniform barely balanced the deformities that made him a target of Barrayar's historically grounded, intense genetic prejudices.
Even now some of the shivering techs flinched away from him, as if his deformities might be contagious.
You care for your patients, Tach, but their deformities and insanities .
Some wore masks to hide their deformities, although some who wore masks were naturals, or nats, in joker slang.
You care for your patients, Tach, but their deformities and insanities.
Where portions of the meadow had sunk, and where other portions had been broken up like an ice-floe, the cavernous openings of the one, and the ragged upturned edges exposed by the other, were hung with a lace-work of soft-tinted crystals of sulphur that changed their deformities into quaint shapes and figures that were full of grace and beauty.
Who would pay any attention to attractions like his among the rare monsters that throng the bridges of the Golden Horn and display their deformities in the gutters of Stamboul?
The authority lent Miles by his uniform barely balanced the deformities that made him a target of Barrayar's historically-grounded, intense genetic prejudices.