The phrase "a distorted image of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a misrepresentation or an inaccurate portrayal of something.
Example: "The media often presents a distorted image of reality, leading to misconceptions among the public."
Alternatives: "a skewed representation of" or "a warped perception of".
Historians have paid too little attention to these many dissenters, giving us a distorted image of psychiatrists and their work.
They will thus abbreviate the Arab and Islamic culture into a distorted image of western material culture.
Allegory, though, is not finally a distorted image of the political: it is the attempt to conjure meaning in an empty world.
Advertising by private clinics too is blamed for conveying a "distorted" image of what female genitals look like and playing down the risks of surgery.
By the next morning, the TV news had moved on, but the two-tone map lived on as a distorted image of the electorate's decision.
These same features pose the most significant experimental design and execution issues which, unless surmounted, predictably generate a distorted image of the transcriptome.
A media storm quickly ripped through Lauren's empire, forcing him to make a public apology, noting, in part: "we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman's body.
In this paper, we propose a fidelity criterion for IQA that relates image quality with the correlation between a reference and a distorted image in the form of sparse code.
Again and again, we see a refracted, distorted image of our homeland staring back at us.
does, and they have a rather distorted image of what the organization stands for," Mr. Glasser said.
Most have a severely distorted image of their bodies, seeing obesity in the mirror where others see skin and bones.
