A few omitted flashes could badly distort the picture and the message they were trying to send.

Their budgets are badly distorted by commitments to expensive weapons designed for the cold war.

But the star seems to be badly distorted into the shape of a pancake.

It's still too distant to say, and the dust cloud badly distorts our data.

By the end of the bout, his face was badly distorted from the swelling beneath his left eye.

The assault on Western civilization badly distorts history.

It was badly distorted in the press.

The populists, who usually live in university towns, paint a portrait of unrelieved misery that badly distorts reality.

The right side of Mrs. Cordero's face was black and blue and badly distorted by swelling today.

Ultra-short waves were badly distorted by the particle radiations of the engines and we did not have hypercom equipment with us.