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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
malformed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a malformed spinal cord
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Miscarriages procured in this way often led to death or malformed births.
▪ One severely malformed boy climbs out of bed and crawls across the floor, crab-like.
▪ Scientists have found selenium in fish and ducks in the Bay and have linked it to malformed birds.
▪ Some parents feel reluctant to see their malformed babies at first and express a need to temper the intensity of the experience.
▪ Technicians can identify only obvious problems, such as malformed sperm heads or tails.
▪ The girls were wearing them along with fat clunky shoes that looked like malformed elevator shoes from the seventies.
▪ The proxy must be in a position to filter dangerous URLs and malformed commands.
▪ Was it malformed, or merely hypothermic, the last to hatch?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
malformed

1801, from mal- + formed, past participle of form (v.).

Wiktionary
malformed

a. Not formed correctly; misshapen; deformed.

WordNet
malformed

adj. so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers" [syn: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, misshapen]

Usage examples of "malformed".

We had a post mortem, and it was found that he had malformed heart valves, like hole-in-heart-babies.

And if you get a malformed foal, well, some years your mare might slip or be barren anyway.

He half expected the Boogeyman to be there, malformed face pressed to the glass, but it was gone.

The body was like that of a dog that had evolved to such an extent that nature meant for it to stand upright in imitation of a man, and for the most part there was an appearance of grace in its form, except in its shoulders and knotted arms, which seemed to contain too much malformed bone to allow fluid movement.

Its malformed shoulders, arms, and hips, all burdened with strange excrescences of useless bone, worked laboriously, although I had the feeling that they would have driven the beast forward with inexplicable grace and speed if it had not been wounded and weakened.

He was human but a freak, his skull so malformed that it proved God had strange, macabre moments.

Hunched over, hair wild, his malformed face looking even stranger than usual in the back.

Down on all fours, it moved with that typically unnerving grace of the goblins, of which its rough arms and shoulders and hips-knotted as they were with malformed bone-seemed incapable.

Remembering the malformed goblin offspring caged in the cellar of the Havendahl house, I inquired about the frequency of birth defects in their broods, and I discovered that our suspicions were correct.

A web of grayish skin was growing between the two malformed digits and was already up to the first knuckle.

Had Gromph not been trapped in the sphere, he knew his nostrils would have been assaulted by the rank, foul odor of the pseudoplane, the stench of the malformed creatures that called it home.

Two dark eyes shone from the depths of the cowl, and the lips that curled around the malformed jaw were spotted with yellow blisters.

He looked at himself, studying his malformed body in the sunlight and hating it.

Near the chair were his boots, the special ones that fit his malformed feet.

As if, he thought, their physical shapes no longer functioned adequately, as if, like archaic, malformed exoskeletons, they were now in the process of being discarded.