ill-shaped
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“It is an ill-devised, ill-shaped subdivision that you cannot do anything with unless you just wipe it off,” Hazen said of the neighborhood in a 1926 Senate hearing.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022
The resulting film was rough and ill-shaped, but it had a sense of emotional honesty and verisimilitude that made it electric.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
“The powers that be were describing it as an ill-shaped and ill-advised subdivision detrimental to the surrounding neighborhood,” Alcione said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2017
But then also to teach now new people how to minimize waste of something that is organic and ill-shaped, so it’s not a square piece of material.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2017
It was my lot, on this occasion, to be put on board a small and ill-shaped collier brig, called the Jane of Shields, but the master I have forgot.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees
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