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

ARNIM's shade Would mock my fall; but silent Friedrichsruh Irks me, whilst lesser spirits so misshape My vast designs, whose shadow, dwarfed, distorted, I trample in my anger, thus—thus—thus!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 by Various

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

For the Briscoe clan, Olympus — with the familiar curves and sounds of the Brazos River, as well as smoke-stink bars and pervasive gossip — has shaped and misshaped them.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2021

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

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2019

Such minor hereditary defects as hare lip or misshaped fingers do not necessarily indicate unfitness for marriage.

From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick)

The balls of both feet and the ends of both pointer toes had been mashed into misshapen blisters.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

But it also puts a target on his splotchy, misshapen head, especially when Garbinger senses in his nemesis an exploitable biofuel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025

While the blobfish is known for its misshapen silhouette, in its natural deep-sea habitat it actually resembles a regular fish, with its shape kept together by the high water pressure.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025

So-called "ugly" produce — misshapen food that never makes it to the grocery store because of its looks — falls into this category.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024

Arul speared a large rag with a misshapen metal pole that lay on the ground.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

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 Riddle, A. G.

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 Derbyshire, Charles E.

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 Gibbon, Perceval