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
Over time, it was power combined with profound insecurity that misshaped him.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2017
It was not that he was positively deformed, or misshaped, for, taken in detail, the figure was well enough.
From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott
This could mean the misshapen duo of “Smiling Friends,” or a very live-action Eric Andre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
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
At a little over two hours long, “Pavements” can feel a little like the band’s notoriously misshapen 1995 opus “Wowee Zowee,” a double album with only three sides.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
His misshapen head and discolored skin made him look scary.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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
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
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