misshapen

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How distorted, misshapen, absurd it had really been.

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  1. Ill-shaped; deformed; ugly. Ther arn mo misshapen a-mong suche beggers Than of meny other men that on this molde walken. Piers Plowman (C), x. 171. I could rather see the stage filled with agreeable objects … than see it crowded with withered or misshapen figures. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 1.

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  • Monstrous, misshapen, the shades of Fulla's monsters were always half a step behind her Fulla broke eye contact then, and the phantasms disappeared. —  SCOTT McGOUGH
  • Had this part of domestic economy been taught in schools, our land would not be so defaced with awkward, misshapen, inconvenient, and, at the same time, needlessly expensive houses, as it now is Although the writer was trained to the care of children, and to perform all branches of domestic duty, by some of the best of housekeepers, much in these pages is offered, not as the result of her own experience, but as what has obtained the approbation of some of the most judicious mothers and housekeepers in the nation. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
  • Its mental pictures, its concepts, its beliefs, come out of it, and are marred, misshapen, untrue, just to the extent to which that is faulty. —  On the Firing Line in Education
  • Its head was clumsy and misshapen, and altogether its aspect was very horrible. —  Martin Rattler
  • His great hairy body seemed much too large for his misshapen legs, and his enormous arms much too long for the body. —  The Gorilla Hunters
 

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