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 ● May 25, 2026
If anything, his success makes failure hang off Henry's shoulders with a glaring shapelessness.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2023
“Making ‘The Overcoat’ ” isn’t particularly well made, and Saitani’s interviews with Norstein often result in a frustrating sense of shapelessness.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2021
The early 20th-century dressmaker and costumer Paul Poiret made kimono coats, controversial for their shapelessness, for wealthy bohemians, and couturiers in the 1920s were intrigued with the potential of draped fabrics and looser silhouettes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2021
It might be gebbeth still, clothed in Skiorh's death, or it might be hidden in the gathering darkness, waiting to seize him and merge its shapelessness with his living flesh.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
