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Discover LudwigIt can be used to describe the act of changing or altering something in a negative or misleading way
Example: The media's constant distorting of the truth has caused widespread confusion among the public. In this sentence, "distorting of" is used to indicate the action of distorting the truth by the media.
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By and large, economists prefer taxes that change the relative prices of goods and services as little as possible, and so cause the minimum distortion to people's spending and investment decisions.The least distorting of all may be lump-sum taxes poll taxes, if you prefer.
"It's very distorting of the family process".
This kind of anecdotal momentum is inherently distorting, of course.
These are easy to collect, hard to evade and far less distorting of spending and investment decisions by individuals or firms.
Direct taxes, such as income taxes, are also distorting of course – by changing the labor-leisure trade-off in favor of working less and taking more time off – but less so than their indirect cousins.
As a matter of economics, indirect taxes are more distorting of the economy, as they create what in jargon are called greater "deadweight costs," which roughly measure the loss to producers and consumers when any activity is taxed.
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They accused Styron of distorting history, of appropriating a black man's voice and using it to perpetuate racist stereotypes.
P.S.: The vagaries of release schedules distort best-of lists, this year in particular.
You professional distorted of facts!! Join me in a press conference.
Mr. Bush's aides, led by Mr. Powell, said last week that such critiques distort of the administration's efforts.
It was distorted, of course, but this was the building block that Google needed to prove its Street View theory.
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