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

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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

Unless these pests are attacked early in the season and repeated if necessary, your apples on bearing trees will be ruined so far as they attack them, being small, misshaped and worthless.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

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

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

Some bakers struggled with presentation, giving judges misshapen, funky-looking bakes.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 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

Three long, thin loaves of bread appeared on the sill, plus a misshapen lump of burned dough.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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