Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ill-shaped; deformed; ugly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a bad or ugly form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
bad orugly form;deformed ;malformed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly
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Examples
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The balloon continues to inflate, but in misshapen form.
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The balloon continues to inflate, but in misshapen form.
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And sometimes, these poor waifs are shown in misshapen skirts and strange unmatching tops that do not meet in the middle.
jean casey | the death of fashion? « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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The pictures are grisly -- bruised, blackened, bodies misshapen from the ferocious force of an angry ocean and all that travels with it.
Boing Boing: December 26, 2004 - January 1, 2005 Archives 2004
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Then it's back to the hotel where we hear tell of other traveller's tale, walking out in Zombiehamm, looking at the architecture that inspired New England, passing the weird steel statue, kind of misshapen, kind of * eerie*, and they look up at the window of a house just as the local pulls the shutters closed -- snap!
Archive 2007-11-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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Then it's back to the hotel where we hear tell of other traveller's tale, walking out in Zombiehamm, looking at the architecture that inspired New England, passing the weird steel statue, kind of misshapen, kind of * eerie*, and they look up at the window of a house just as the local pulls the shutters closed -- snap!
Aye and Tomorrow Hal Duncan 2007
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Umbert, for those who missed him, is a cartoon fetus that floats in some kind of misshapen uterus that has been detatched completely from anything resembling a woman the hypothetical artificial womb, perhaps? and spouts the pro-life line as well as any adult.
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Umbert, for those who missed him, is a cartoon fetus that floats in some kind of misshapen uterus that has been detatched completely from anything resembling a woman the hypothetical artificial womb, perhaps? and spouts the pro-life line as well as any adult.
Shaping my baby 2006
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June 14, 2010 10: 43 a.m. Between the "misshapen" teeth and those eyebrows, some one has got to recognize him.
WRAL.com Top Stories 2010
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Its scientific name Amorphos applies for 'without form' and phallus 'misshapen' in Ancient Greek term.
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