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Definition of Ill-shapen
1. Adjective. So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly. "Misshapen old fingers"
Similar to: Unshapely
Derivative terms: Deformity, Deformity, Misshapenness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-shapen
Literary usage of Ill-shapen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetic and Verse Criticism of the Reign of Elizabeth by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1891)
"severely, saying of the latter's hexameters : " A great number of them my stomacke
can hardly digest for the ill shapen sound of many of his wordes ..."
2. The Sauks and the Black Hawk War: With Biographical Sketches, Etc by Perry A. Armstrong (1887)
"Conceived in avarice, the off-spring of deception, ill-shapen and deformed at
its birth, ushered into the world without organs of real life, ..."
3. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1897)
"37 Canadians' bodies are not ill-shapen or defective. p. 37 Canadians dressed in
skins which have been curried and decorated in various colors. . p. ..."
4. A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs and by Richard Phillips, James Gates Percival (1838)
"These latter have been called Negroes, but are a much more diminutive and ill-shapen
race, with a more prominent muzzle and receding chin ; hair rather ..."
5. A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs, and by Richard Phillips, James Gates Percival (1826)
"These latter have been called Negroes, hut are a much more diminutive and ill
shapen race, with a more prominent muzzle and receding chin; ..."
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