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storto

crooked, twisted

adjective STOR-toh Rare

Also means

wrong, skewed

Usage Note

Storto describes something physically bent or misaligned (un chiodo storto, a bent nail) but also figurative wrongness — guardare storto means 'to look askance at someone' or 'to give a dirty look'. The adverb storto appears in andare storto ('to go wrong'), a very common colloquial expression.

Examples

"Quel quadro è appeso storto."

Natural Translation

That picture is hung crooked.

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