ladeados

English translation: crooked, disproportionate.

18:52 Jul 27, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: ladeados
A text about the lives led in a mental hospital in Chile in the 90s:

Ellos están viviendo una extraordinaria historia de amor encerrados en el hospital; crónicos, indigentes, ladeados, cojos, mutilados, con la mirada fija, caminando por las dependencias con todos sus bultos a cuestas. Chilenos, olvidados de la mano de Dios, entregados a la caridad rígida del Estado

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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 01:23
English translation:crooked, disproportionate.
Explanation:
Ladeado: [persona] Que tiene un aspecto desgarbado y desagradable.

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Sebastián Moya
Chile
Local time: 00:23
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1bent
YESHWANT UMRALKAR
3 +1[the] lopsided
Muriel Vasconcellos
4crooked, disproportionate.
Sebastián Moya
3broken
Enrique Soria


  

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55 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
bent


Explanation:
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YESHWANT UMRALKAR
India
Local time: 09:53
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

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agree  patinba
23 hrs
  -> Gracias, patinba

neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: "bent" in UK slang means homosexual
2 days 16 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
[the] lopsided


Explanation:
I would make them all nouns:

'the chronically ill, the indigent, the lopsided, the lame, the mutilated -- all with a fixed gaze'

I'm not sure about 'lopsided', but I think that's the idea.

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Note added at 1 hr (2019-07-27 20:17:13 GMT)
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'Crooked' might also work, but it could have a different meaning. It really means that they lean over to one side.

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 21:23
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 305

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: I was thinking lopsided/wonky/unbalanced but saw in Argentina it can mean "slovenly"
11 mins
  -> Thank you, Yvonne!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
crooked, disproportionate.


Explanation:
Ladeado: [persona] Que tiene un aspecto desgarbado y desagradable.

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Sebastián Moya
Chile
Local time: 00:23
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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8 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
broken


Explanation:
in the general sense of broken-spirited, lackluster

Enrique Soria
Mexico
Local time: 22:23
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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