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How to use the word deformity in a Sentence?

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She’s fatter than when she first came to us, but you can see the shape of her spine very clearly – it’s a physical deformity she will have to live with, but she’s doing well.

Edwin Wiek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's either 6 toes, which is a deformity, or it's a hand, and that's the knuckles, researcher Lee Woods's knuckle-dragging.

Researcher Lee Woods

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I couldn’t do anything. I ran, I shadowboxed, I hit the bag with my right hand and I kicked the bag. That’s all I could do, and technique, like just drilling technique really light because hand was just completely f----d up. And I also, so I cut the ligament in my finger, so I have what they call a boutonniere deformity. I can actually have surgery if I wanted to, but I don’t feel like doing that.

Jared Gordon

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It’s a bizarre situation and a bizarre photo. it is possible that the teeth could be the remnants of a conjoined twin that died in the womb and was absorbed into the other fetus. It is also possible that deformity was a teratoma tumor. These kinds of tumors are composed of tissue from which teeth, hair, and even fingers and toes can develop. They are rare in humans and animals.

Idaho Fish and Game

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

During puberty and as a result of changing testosterone hormone balance, the growth plate weakens around the age of 12-13, making it even more sensitive to displacement or deformity, severe muscular training and high loading activities should be restricted until skeletal maturity for any joint and sport.

Emmanuel Audenaert

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

Bernard Mandeville

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato the Elder

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10 years ago

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Max Beerbohm

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10 years ago

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

William Blake

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye on the mind?s deformity.

R Chamberlain

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12 years ago

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.

Robert Cecil

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

Clarence Darrow

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14 years ago

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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