misshapen
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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
Malawi and Uganda are roughly in the right place but are misshapen and Cameroon is mentioned but the name is not linked to a country on the map.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The balls of both feet and the ends of both pointer toes had been mashed into misshapen blisters.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
Some bakers struggled with presentation, giving judges misshapen, funky-looking bakes.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025
Molly got rid of boxes that were oddly sized or misshapen or in bad shape and replaced them with new thick cardboard boxes, uniformly rectangular.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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