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ill-shaped
adjective as in clumsy
Weak matches
- all thumbs
- blundering
- blunderous
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- clownish
- crude
- elephantine
- gauche
- gawkish
- gawky
- graceless
- ham-handed
- heavy
- helpless
- hulking
- incompetent
- inelegant
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- lubberly
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- splay
- stumbling
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- weedy
Example Sentences
Near by me on the ground lay a ragged limb, cut from some tree by the pruners, now dry, tough and not ill-shaped for a club.
They were creatures of ungainly forms—in make and size not unlike large ill-shaped dogs—and of a greenish-brown colour.
A microscope will prove the most boasted performances of art to be ill-shaped, rugged, and uneven.
The ill-shaped body seemed but a case for a soul the fairness of which did shine through the foul lineaments which enclosed it.
Without, the house was clumsy and ill-shaped, the product perhaps of an uncouth workman of past generations.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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