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English
Verb
distorting
- present participle and gerund of distort
Adjective
distorting (comparative more distorting, superlative most distorting)
- That distorts.
2001, Karel Jan Vollers, Twist & build: creating non-orthogonal architecture, page 86:It's like looking in a distorting mirror at the fair.
2008, House of Commons: Children, Schools and Families Committee, “Cambridge Assessment”, in Testing and Assessment: Oral and written evidence, volume 2, page 215:However, the procedure has been applied only to those below the threshold and who might move up, and not to those just above, who might move down. This has had a very distorting effect on the distributions.
2010, Ross McKitrick, Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, page 187:This is somewhat counter-intuitive, and indeed goes against the double-dividend argument that in economies with very distorting tax systems we should raise pollution taxes and lower other taxes.
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