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Misrepresenting Wit Badly Hurt Crossword Clue

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239%8Badly injured or hurt
326%9 A wit badly described by brand new author

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We think the answer is "TWISTING" which means:

    noun
  • • The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
  • • The act of rotating rapidly
  • adjective satellite
  • • Marked by repeated turns and bends
  • verb
  • • To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
  • • To join together by twining one part around another.
  • • To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
  • • To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
  • • To wind into; to insinuate.
  • • To turn a knob etc.
  • • To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
  • • To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
  • • To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
  • • (of a path) to wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
  • • To cause to rotate.
  • • To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
  • • To coax.
  • • In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
  • adjective
  • • Having many twists

An example sentence would be:

  • • "The twisting road led us through the mountains."
  • • "The vines formed a twisting pattern on the wall."

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The Guardian Everyman06 Mar 2016 Down 16
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