The word "twisted" is correct and usable in written English. It is an adjective used to describe something that has been bent out of shape or something that is devious or complex. For example: The twisted plot of the novel kept me guessing until the very end.
"I came out and the first thing I saw was a woman with no head and no legs," he said, standing amid the twisted remnants of laptops and televisions, twisted into spidery globules of black metal.
"It was a very, very simple bowl, and the rim was thick but it twisted," he said.
The last demonstrated the purest skill, as he twisted into position to drill in after Nathan Aké's beautiful assist.
They have been helped to an extent by unguarded statements from MPs who should know better or, at least, show have grasped that their words could be twisted.
When they came back with Patience, which began this style, they were genuinely uplifting because there was a note of humility and vulnerability – now twisted into the kind of thing to soundtrack the drive home from a successful afternoon at the SCS sale, they are among the most venal musicians in the UK.
The child-sized blue jeans lay twisted and forlorn in the scrubland along one of the most popular routes for undocumented migrants crossing from Mexico into Texas.
I remember the raw pain and how he twisted it, left, right, left, right, left, right… Thirty years later, here I am again.
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