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

"She was," says a writer, "ugly and captivating, with crooked eyes and a charming expression, her mouth ill-shaped, but tender and inviting," such as Ingres represented her in one of his finest pencil drawings.

From Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Sparrow, Walter Shaw