"distorting" meaning in English

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          "word": "distorting mirror"
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          "text": "It's like looking in a distorting mirror at the fair.",
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          "text": "However, the procedure has been applied only to those below the threshold and who might move up, and not to those just above, who might move down. This has had a very distorting effect on the distributions.",
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          "ref": "2010, Ross McKitrick, Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, page 187:",
          "text": "This is somewhat counter-intuitive, and indeed goes against the double-dividend argument that in economies with very distorting tax systems we should raise pollution taxes and lower other taxes.",
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          "sense": "that distorts",
          "word": "deformante"
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          "sense": "that distorts",
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