unshapely

Example Sentences

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Some of the trees were unshapely, Charlie Brownish, compared with the well-tended specimens on Christmas tree farms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Lise kept on watching the thin, unshapely hand.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2020

She is plain, unshapely and unpleasant in ways that are only occasionally endearing.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2012

In Detroit, Mrs. Margaret Laing had the last word in a divorce hearing when she claimed that her husband's lady friend had "the most unshapely legs in all southern Michigan."

From Time Magazine Archive

In it, Mariam saw her own face first, the archless, unshapely eyebrows, the flat hair, the eyes, mirthless green and set so closely together that one might mistake her for being cross-eyed.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini