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
The ill-shaped body seemed but a case for a soul the fairness of which did shine through the foul lineaments which enclosed it.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
