to twist · to warp · to distort

Don't twist my words around.

Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.

I think perfection is ugly, he said. "Somewhere in the things that humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion."