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

Moccasins just broadened her feet healthily, while she did not misshape them by running with the dogs in her childhood.'

From The Son of the Wolf by Jack London

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

Ms. Upson also made one of the strongest contributions to this year’s Whitney Biennial: urethane casts of sectional sofas from Las Vegas tract houses, which appeared less like furniture than like misshaped human bodies.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017

Three genes—PADI3, TGM3, and TCHH—direct the process that causes the misshaped strands, researchers report this month in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 22, 2016

After the waste of misshaped lumps of limestone and volcanic looking boulders, which were the only decoration of the Western Desert, this sort of landscape seemed positively verdant.

From The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 by David Douglas Ogilvie

This could mean the misshapen duo of “Smiling Friends,” or a very live-action Eric Andre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

Sickle cell disease can be life-threatening and cause recurring intense pain, when blood vessels become blocked by misshapen red cells.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025

A detached description of his physical features would have made him sound like an ugly, misshapen oaf: pockmarked face, decayed teeth, oversized eye sockets, massive nose, heavy in the hips, gargantuan hands and feet.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

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