ill-shaped
Example Sentences
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“It is an ill-devised, ill-shaped subdivision that you cannot do anything with unless you just wipe it off,” Hazen said of the neighborhood in a 1926 Senate hearing.
From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2022
The resulting film was rough and ill-shaped, but it had a sense of emotional honesty and verisimilitude that made it electric.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2021
“The powers that be were describing it as an ill-shaped and ill-advised subdivision detrimental to the surrounding neighborhood,” Alcione said.
From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2017
But then also to teach now new people how to minimize waste of something that is organic and ill-shaped, so it’s not a square piece of material.
From Slate • Aug. 9, 2017
Yes, he was piebald; and not only had he this misfortune, 11 but he was the clumsiest and most ill-shaped rat that ever nibbled a candle-end!
From The Rambles of a Rat by A. L. O. E.
