: mentally or emotionally unsound or disturbed : sick
a cruel, twisted mind
And you know there will be some strange and twisted bitter man who will listen to all our messages.—
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Kate Nalepinski, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
Watching his victims struggle to stay alive is cinema to this twisted soul and Zephyr will be his next unwitting protagonist.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
But that light and really dark, twisted stuff go well together.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2025
On top of everything, Handsome Jack is amongst the most memorable and twisted villains in modern video games, plus the DLC packs with new stories and loot didn't disappoint.
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 22 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for twisted
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“Twisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twisted. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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