beastlike
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Some of my peers found Birkenstocks irredeemably ugly, or too vivid a reminder of their shambolic college days; or they disliked the way that Birkenstocks can look alarmingly boatlike on larger feet.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2015
Works by Picasso and Max Ernst joined made-to-order furniture such as Marcel Coard’s boatlike sofa, which ended up in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
From Architectural Digest • Aug. 27, 2014
He hints as much in a boatlike tabletop sculpture from 1994 built of small cubes and slabs of wood that is titled “Twenty-Four Screws.”
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2011
Play Boy, built by Lincoln Aircraft Co., somewhat resembles the Curtiss Junior in boatlike appearance and low clearance.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His large hand trembling, he pulled off his old robes, which were hanging a foot above his ankles, pulled on the spare ones, and laced up Goyle’s boatlike shoes.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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