misshape
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
noun
Etymology
Origin of misshape
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at mis- 1, shape
Example Sentences
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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
Moccasins just broadened her feet healthily, while she did not misshape them by running with the dogs in her childhood.'
From The Son of the Wolf by Jack London
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
Ms. Upson also made one of the strongest contributions to this year’s Whitney Biennial: urethane casts of sectional sofas from Las Vegas tract houses, which appeared less like furniture than like misshaped human bodies.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 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
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
Following Elizabeth’s gaze, Melanie was horrified to see a huge misshapen figure teetering on the top of the high board fence.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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
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
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
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