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  • 101gait — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. step, pace, stride; trot, gallop, walk, dogtrot; shuffle, saunter. See motion, method. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Manner of moving on foot] Syn. walk, run, motion, step, tread, stride, pace, tramp, march …

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  • 102deformed — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. distorted, misshapen, disfigured, crippled, misproportioned, malformed, bowed, cramped, ill proportioned, disjointed, awry, unseemly, ill favored, dwarfed, hunchbacked, humpbacked, warped, misconceived, maimed, mangled …

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  • 103bow — {{11}}bow (n.1) weapon for shooting arrows, O.E. boga archery bow, arch, rainbow, from P.Gmc. *bugon (Cf. O.N. bogi, O.Fris. boga, Du. boog, Ger. Bogen bow; see BOW (Cf. bow) (v.)). The sense of a looped knot is from 1540s. The musician s bow… …

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  • 104prevarication — (n.) late 14c., divergence from a right course, transgression, from O.Fr. prevaricacion (12c.), from L. praevaricationem (nom. praevaricatio) a stepping out of line (of duty or behavior), noun of action from pp. stem of praevaricari to make a… …

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  • 105bandy — v 1. throw, toss, toss about, pass, rally, shuffle; exchange, trade, swap, barter, chaffer, dicker; interchange, transpose, change hands, reciprocate. adj 2. bowed, curved, crooked, bent, twisted, askew, awry, misshapen; bowlegged, bowkneed …

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  • 106deformed — adj 1. misshapen, malformed, distorted, ill proportioned, misproportioned; irregular, unnatural, grotesque; contorted, curved, awry, askew, crooked, gnarled; crippled, lame, humpbacked, hunchbacked, Pathol. kyphotic, bowlegged, bandylegged, knock …

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  • 107malformed — adj misshapen, distorted, deformed, anamorphous; unsymmetric, irregular, not straight, ill proportioned, misproportioned; misbegotten, ill made, grotesque, awry, crooked, askew; round shouldered, hunchbacked, humpbacked, bowlegged, bandylegged,… …

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  • 108miscreated — adj misshapen, unshaped, deformed, malformed, ill proportioned, misproportioned; defected, distorted, contorted, curved, awry, askew, crooked, gnarled, crippled, lame; stooped, roundshoul dered, bent, humpbacked, hunchbacked, Pathol. kyphotic;… …

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  • 109misshapen — adj deformed, malformed, miscreated, unshapen; unshapely, ill proportioned, mispropor tioned; distorted, contorted, warped, twisted, curved, crooked, gnarled, awry, askew; round shouldered, stooped, bent, hunchbacked, humpbacked, Pathol.… …

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  • 110bandy-legged — ban•dy leg•ged [[t]ˈbæn diˌlɛg ɪd, ˌlɛgd[/t]] adj. bowlegged • Etymology: 1680–90 …

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