shapeless
adjective
having no definite or regular shape or form.
shapelessness
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a word derived from
shapeless.
Example Sentences
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Its relative shapelessness, along with its use of a ghostwriter, doesn’t bolster her literary credentials, but its existence points to Monroe’s ambition to have them.
From Los Angeles Times β May 25, 2026
If anything, his success makes failure hang off Henry's shoulders with a glaring shapelessness.
From Salon β Feb. 23, 2023
That “Heat” is plotted as tightly as a Swiss watch makes the shapelessness of this follow-up all the harder to forgive.
From Washington Post β Aug. 9, 2022
They might write experimental essays or memoirs; champion shagginess and shapelessness; pronounce, as Lockwood did in a recent interview, that the internet has anointed “the fragmentary and the autofictional … the modes of the times.”
From New York Times β Feb. 16, 2021
And, after that, the uncared-for building itself would settle into shapelessness, buried under the ubiquity of the dust.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
