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Unshapely

adjective

Not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape.

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"Unshapely" Quotes from Famous Books

... styled acquisitiveness by the pupils of a science modern in name, but best practically known (as their sculpture teaches us) amongst the ancients, two huge and almost preternatural protuberances yet more distorted the unshapely head—around the brows the skin was puckered into a web of deep and intricate wrinkles—the eyes, dark and small, rolled in a muddy and yellow orbit—the nose, short yet coarse, was distended at the nostrils like a satyr's—and the thick but ...

— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

... metaphysician even more than poet. Reality never appealed to him by its general effects. One might doubt, from his way of treating human forms, whether their "envelope" interested him. He loved women, and never saw them otherwise than unshapely; he loved textures, and did not imitate them; but then, if he ignored grace and beauty, purity of line and the delicacy of the skin, he expressed the nude body by suggestions of suppleness, roundness, elasticity, with a love of material substance, a sense ...

— The Mind of the Artist - Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art • Various

Words linked to "Unshapely" : knobby, shapely, knobbly, shapeless, asymmetric, taliped, chunky, chicken-breasted, noduled, nodulated, clubfooted, deformed, lumpy, asymmetrical, distorted, ill-proportioned, misshapen, pigeon-breasted, torulose, acromegalic, malformed, ill-shapen, nodulose, nodular