Noun
(entertainment) A curved mirror, often using convex and concave sections to achieve a distorted effect, as:
With strong effect, as a popular attraction at carnivals and fairs: synonym of funhouse mirror.
With subtle effect, to mislead customers in clothing shops: synonym of skinny mirror.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgFear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable. Stefan Zweig
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror. Hans-Georg Gadamer
You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth. Jean Rhys
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America what found them when they came and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all. Neil Gaiman