168. Deformity (See also Lameness.)

1. Calmady, Sir Richard born without lower legs. [Br. Lit.: Sir Richard Calmady, Walsh Modern, 84]
2. Carey, Philip embittered young man with club foot seeks fulfillment. [Br. Lit.: Of Human Bondage ]
3. Cyclopes one-eyed monsters. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey ]
4. Elephant Man, the Joseph Merrick, whose deformed face was said to resemble an elephant’s. [Br. Cinema: The Elephant Man ]
5. Freaks 1930s macabre movie about sideshow people. [Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 278]
6. Gwynplaine his disfigured face had a perpetual horrible grin. [Fr. Lit.: Hugo The Man Who Laughs in Benét, 632]
7. Mayeux deformed man, both brave and witty. [Fr. Folklore: Wheeler Dictionary, 237]
8. Priapus son of Aphrodite and Dionysus; grotesque man with huge phallus. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 233]
9. Quasimodo hunchbacked bell-ringer. [Fr. Lit.: Hunchback of Notre Dame ]
10. Richard III crook-back king. [Br. Lit.: Shakespeare Richard III ]
11. Sarn, Prudence harelipped girl is servant on brother’s farm. [Br. Lit.: Precious Bane, Magill I, 778–780]
12. thalidomide supposedly harmless sedative resulted in disfigured babies. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 582–583]
13. Thersites deformed Greek officer at the siege of Troy, famed for his malevolence. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad ]
14. Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864–1901) crippled and stunted; became great artist. [Fr. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 13]

de·form·i·ty / diˈfôrmitē/ • n. (pl. -ties) a deformed part, esp. of the body; a malformation: children born with deformities. ∎  the state of being deformed or misshapen: respiratory problems caused by spinal deformity.