contorted

/kənˈtɔrtəd/

Other forms: contortedly

Use the adjective contorted to describe something that's twisted or misshapen. If your face is contorted with frustration as you build a model sailboat, you’re furrowing your brows and wrinkling your nose — and should probably find a new hobby.

Things can be physically contorted, like a twisting mountain trail, or figuratively contorted, like a biased magazine article. A story can get contorted as well. The more times you tell people the tale of your bike crash, the more it changes, until in the end you're telling a pretty contorted version in which the bike is a motorcycle and the lamp post is a pack of rabid dogs.

Definitions of contorted

1. adjective

   twisted (especially as in pain or struggle)
   “his mad contorted smile”

   synonyms: writhed, writhen

   crooked

   having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned