shapelessness
- 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 ● May 25, 2026
If anything, his success makes failure hang off Henry's shoulders with a glaring shapelessness.
From Salon ● 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 ● Aug. 9, 2022
Where De Rotterdam uses its chameleonic design to pay homage to the shapelessness of the city, OMA’s Timmerhuis, completed in 2015, offers a subtler kind of formlessness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2018
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
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