misshape
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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
V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
The Hulu series comes before us as history is actively misshaped by men like Alex Murdaugh, which makes it a distinctly masochistic viewing experience.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2025
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
Such minor hereditary defects as hare lip or misshaped fingers do not necessarily indicate unfitness for marriage.
From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by William F. (William Frederick) Bigelow
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
Those "knobbly and misshapen potatoes" however are absolutely fine to eat, she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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
From the ashes she pulled a strange assortment of survivors: fragments of ceramic plates, misshapen metal and coffee mugs that no public health authority would recommend using.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
The snowmen the squires had built had grown into monstrous giants, ten feet tall and hideously misshapen.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
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
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
