malformed

[ mal-fawrmd ]

adjective

1. faultily or anomalously formed.

   Synonyms: contorted, distorted, deformed, misshapen

Word History and Origins

Origin of malformed¹

First recorded in 1810–20; mal- + formed ( def )

Example Sentences

Baby Doe, born in 1982 in Indiana with Down syndrome, Trisomy 21, and a malformed esophagus, required surgery to allow water and nutrients to reach his stomach.

From Time

Those females are sterile, and they cannot bite people with their malformed mouthparts.

From Science News

Last month, biomedical company Intellia reported promising results from a phase one trial of a CRISPR therapy that treats a rare disease caused by malformed proteins in the liver.

From Singularity Hub 

Existing drugs, approved by the FDA in 2018, silence the mRNA that produces the malformed thyretin protein, instead of altering its gene.

From Singularity Hub 

He said he was stepping down to join his wife in Maine, where she has been helping their daughter’s family care for a 2-year-old grandson born with a malformed heart.

From Washington Post

It can be shocking at first—the copious amounts of nudity, ostentation, “O” faces, all twisted, layered, sometimes even malformed.

From The Daily Beast

If from any cause the new being is seriously malformed or diseased, it is a common thing for the dam to miscarry.

From Project Gutenberg

What I found was that it had been twisted and malformed from birth, so that it was a center of continuous infection.

From Project Gutenberg

Assembled there they look like a lot of malformed giants, with oversized heads sunk curiously in their shoulders.

From Project Gutenberg

His right arm is malformed, and only a very strong man, with two strong arms, could have performed that feat.

From Project Gutenberg

Excepting between death and slavery, there was no choice for the weak or the malformed.

From Project Gutenberg