ill-shaped
Example Sentences
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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
Her nails were horny and ill-shaped, and underneath them and at their roots were large deposits of dirt and other fertilizing compounds, under the stimulating influence of which they had grown lank and long.
From The Witches of New York by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander
