deformity
pronunciation
How to pronounce deformity in British English:
UK [dɪˈfɔ:məti]
How to pronounce deformity in American English:
US [dɪˈfɔrməti]
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- Noun:
- an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed
- an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
Word Origin
- deformity (n.)
- early 15c., diformyte, from Old French deformité "deformity, disfigurement," from Latin deformitatem (nominative deformitas) "ugliness," from deformis "misformed, misshapen," from deformare (see deform).
Example
- 1. A congenital lip deformity caused him to speak in a nasal almost unintelligible whisper .
- 2. Was born with a facial deformity and was constantly told by his step father how hideous he was .
- 3. Today doctors justified the fourth , arguing that the recipient could not function in society with such an extreme deformity .
- 4. In the nun 's eyes , it was the kind of deformity that protestants were prone to ; it was for anne 's sake , as everyone knew , that henry viii had broken away from rome and plunged his entire nation into the darkness of apostasy .
- 5. Going back to first principles , vice skulks , with all its native deformity , from close investigation ; but a set of shallow reasoners are always exclaiming that these arguments prove too much , and that a measure rotten at the core may be expedient .