shapelessly
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a word derived from
shapeless.
shapelessadjectivehaving no definite or regular shape or form.
Example Sentences
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As told by Elvira Vernet, the book's energetic, keen-eyed narrator, unlucky in love but gifted in perception, the stories of romance, betrayal and fortune seeking pile up gorgeously but shapelessly, like successive canopies of foliage.
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These two amiable monsters, as shapelessly alike as two corpulent snails, seem to be engaged in a contest to see who can stick his long-stemmed eyeballs farthest out of his head.
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Middle West is the utility empire sprawled somewhat shapelessly through 5,321 small cities and towns serving 6,000,000 people.
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After a jokey faux-serious documentary narration opening, the first two songs stretch out shapelessly for way too long.
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The holiday makers who roam this region had not wholly dispersed; a few couples sat shapelessly on benches; and here and there a distant girl still shrieked in one of the swings.
From The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton