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Definition of Shapelessly
1. Adverb. In a shapeless manner. "The dress hung shapelessly on her thin body"
Definition of Shapelessly
1. Adverb. In a shapeless manner. ¹
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Definition of Shapelessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shapelessly
Literary usage of Shapelessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Southern Africa in the Years, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806 by Hinrich Lichtenstein, Anne Plumptre (1812)
"The little children were extremely ugly, and no less shapelessly thick in the
body, than the grown people were shapelessly lean. ..."
2. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"... for he was not sitting, he was not lying, he was not leaning, but shapelessly
sunk together.2 The Lights,8 who till now had been employed upon him, ..."
3. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished by Thomas Carlyle (1891)
"... scarcely keep from laughing, solemn as the moment was; for he was not sitting,
he was not lying, he was not leaning, but shapelessly sunk together. ..."
4. Cancer: Its Classification and Remedies by J. W. Bright (1871)
"The shapelessly caudate cell is significant of cancer. ... may contain compound
nucleated cells, and spherical and shapelessly caudate cells. ..."
5. British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review (1849)
"The shapelessly- ... secondarily affected, may contain compound nucleated cells,
spherical and shapelessly- ..."
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