So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly.
1 But there are well and ill-shapen plants, and monstrosities too.
2 At that instant he caught sight of his mother's ill-shapen figure cowering over the fire.
3 It was not a bad omelette, though not quite innocent of wood-ash, perhaps, and somewhat ill-shapen .
4 The time seemed so right for it, the ill - shapen moon, the quietude-a good night for a ghost story.
5 Her feather-adorned hat was discarded altogether and her ill-shapen high-heeled boots replaced by airy slippers of braided fiber.
6 Immediately before its principal door, the rock rises in an ill-shapen hillock, across which runs the path to Italy.
7 First of all I set me down at the very outskirts of the woodland, and raised me a bower there, rude and ill-shapen .
8 Tommy Taft was not amazed; but if he had not already become accustomed to affronts and ill-shapen visages, he might have been awed into silence.
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