having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"[syn: distorted ]

adjective

awry , bent , braided , coiled , complicated , contorted , convoluted , crooked , curled , gnarled , intricate , involved , knurly , perverted , tangled , tortile , tortuous , wound , wry