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Warp

noun

A twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting. Synonym: deflection.

A shape distorted by twisting or folding. Synonym: buckle.

A moral or mental distortion. Synonym: warping.

Yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof.

verb

(past & past part. warped; pres. part. warping)

Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story. Synonyms: distort, falsify, garble.

Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat. Synonyms: buckle, heave.

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"Warp" Quotes from Famous Books

... or De Lolme. The most moral writers, after all, are those who do not pretend to inculcate any moral. The professed moralist almost unavoidably degenerates into the partisan of a system; and the philosopher is too apt to warp the evidence to his own purpose. But the painter of manners gives the facts of human nature, and leaves us to draw the inference: if we are not able to do this, or do it ill, at least it ...

— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin

... school-days and boyish struggles. But though he was called away from the chivalric companionship of the knights of old, the impression made upon his mind by their courage and fortitude and devotion to duty ever after ran, like a thread of gold, through the warp and woof of ...

— With Spurs of Gold - Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds • Frances Nimmo Greene

... warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room and verge enough[383-3] The characters of ...

— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... deep pessimism at its darkest. The imperfect, that is everywhere. That is all that you can see or work at. That is the warp and woof of all your occupations and institutions, your politics, your science, your religion. They are all nearly as bad as they are good. Your science has forever to disown its past. Your politics demands that you shall be particeps ...

— Modern American Prose Selections • Various

... his eyes on hers. With a little effort he now pursued. 'You know of my romance, Miss Buchanan, and you know that it's over, except as a beautiful and sacred memory. You know that I don't intend to let a memory warp my life. It may seem sudden to you, and I ask your pardon if it's too sudden; but I want to marry; I want a home, and children, and the companionship of some one I care for and respect, very deeply. Therefore, Miss Buchanan,' he spoke on, turning ...

— Franklin Kane • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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