misshape

Sure, I am OK to sweat under bright lights and have a heavy-mic pack permanently misshape the waistband of a skirt, but, reader, only if it’s worth it.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2019

A dream sequence late in the script is almost certainly a structural bungle, and passages in which characters state their claims too blatantly misshape individual scenes.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2014

“No no no!” she teased her son, watching him misshape a dumpling.

From Washington Post

He pays particular attention to the intricacies of political institutions and how they shape and misshape policies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Do not blame me, Dennie, if two men have helped to misshape my life.

From A Master's Degree by Margaret Hill McCarter

The Hulu series comes before us as history is actively misshaped by men like Alex Murdaugh, which makes it a distinctly masochistic viewing experience.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2025

But if you’re game for an emerging filmmaking talent’s stingingly uncanny foretelling, “The Pink Cloud” is an arresting examination of what it can look like when existence is misshaped into a compromised destiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

Verdon, like Fosse, grew up dancing: As a child she had rickets, which misshaped her legs.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2019

Over time, it was power combined with profound insecurity that misshaped him.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2017

And the crops of the husbandmen spring up, each as it was sown, and the children die not, and no misshaped offspring is born.”

From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer

In a gangster movie we’d call it muscle: large men with misshapen heads who do the grunt work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Growers are also reporting cucumbers that are coming out misshapen, with some bending back into a spiral.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

What rare fruit survived to maturity on these little, addled trees was misshapen, acrid, and stubbornly green on one end; in short, it tasted terrible.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

At a little over two hours long, “Pavements” can feel a little like the band’s notoriously misshapen 1995 opus “Wowee Zowee,” a double album with only three sides.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025

A misshapen armadillo caught my eye, warped and buckled and lumpy, obviously stuffed by the most inept amateur.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Strangers interlope for a moment, and change destinies, coming out for a day, from nothing, and going to nowhere, but marring and misshaping everything.

From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. Riddle

But while he was living thus quietly in Dapitan, events that were to determine his fate were misshaping themselves in Manila.

From The Social Cancer by Charles E. Derbyshire

Her Hand was to her bosom; she breathed hard, and presently, while he stared, words misshaping themselves upon his abashed lips she smiled!

From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Perceval Gibbon