What ヒネた means here?


I am uncertain about the meaning of ヒネた below.

> 子供の中にヒネた大人を捻じ込んだみてーな口調

I understand ヒネた子供 as a child who acts like an adult but I am not sure what
ヒネた大人 means. I think it means an adult who got older, right?




If it's a quote from a recent work, the author might be using ひねた
interchangeably with ひねくれた. In that case, it's more about ill-naturedness than
about age. This might be technically a misuse of the word, but a rather common
one.

I'm not sure if we can say it's definitely a misuse, though, because there can
be a continuity from aging to losing innocence to being cynical to having
distorted (or ひねくれた) view of the world.

From a lexicographer's tweet:

<https://twitter.com/IIMA_Hiroaki/status/211006532517773313>

>
> 「◆ひねた子ども」と聞いて、どんな子を思い浮かべるでしょうか。ませた子どもか、ひねくれた子どもか。正解は前者です。でも、ツイッターでは〈ひねた性格の人〉〈ひねた大人に育ち〉〈ひねた目で見る〉などとあって、圧倒的に後者の意味で使っています。辞書に記述してもいいくらい。

The tweet was about the word's usage among Twitter users in 2012, but I think
I see the same thing in a wider Japanese speaking population today.

EDIT: It might not be a recent change, actually. It's easy to find examples
[from
1970s](https://dl.ndl.go.jp/search/searchResult?accessRestrictions=internet&accessRestrictions=ooc&accessRestrictions=inlibrary&collection=A00001&collection=A00002&collection=A00022&collection=A00003&collection=A00014&collection=A00015&collection=A00017&collection=A00016&collection=A00019&collection=A00121&collection=A00024&collection=A00152&collection=A00150&collection=A00173&collection=A00122&collection=A00162&collection=B00000&keyword=%22%E3%81%B2%E3%81%AD%E3%81%9F%E5%A4%A7%E4%BA%BA%22&fullText=true&eraType=AD&identifierItem=ISBN&includeVolumeNum=true&pageNum=0&pageSize=20&sortKey=ISSUED_ASC&displayMode=list).




If it's a quote from a recent work, the author might be using ひねた
interchangeably with ひねくれた. In that case, it's more about ill-naturedness than
about age. This might be technically a misuse of the word, but a rather common
one.

I'm not sure if we can say it's definitely a misuse, though, because there can
be a continuity from aging to losing innocence to being cynical to having
distorted (or ひねくれた) view of the world.

From a lexicographer's tweet:

<https://twitter.com/IIMA_Hiroaki/status/211006532517773313>

>
> 「◆ひねた子ども」と聞いて、どんな子を思い浮かべるでしょうか。ませた子どもか、ひねくれた子どもか。正解は前者です。でも、ツイッターでは〈ひねた性格の人〉〈ひねた大人に育ち〉〈ひねた目で見る〉などとあって、圧倒的に後者の意味で使っています。辞書に記述してもいいくらい。

The tweet was about the word's usage among Twitter users in 2012, but I think
I see the same thing in a wider Japanese speaking population today.

EDIT: It might not be a recent change, actually. It's easy to find examples
[from
1970s](https://dl.ndl.go.jp/search/searchResult?accessRestrictions=internet&accessRestrictions=ooc&accessRestrictions=inlibrary&collection=A00001&collection=A00002&collection=A00022&collection=A00003&collection=A00014&collection=A00015&collection=A00017&collection=A00016&collection=A00019&collection=A00121&collection=A00024&collection=A00152&collection=A00150&collection=A00173&collection=A00122&collection=A00162&collection=B00000&keyword=%22%E3%81%B2%E3%81%AD%E3%81%9F%E5%A4%A7%E4%BA%BA%22&fullText=true&eraType=AD&identifierItem=ISBN&includeVolumeNum=true&pageNum=0&pageSize=20&sortKey=ISSUED_ASC&displayMode=list).

