unshapely

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Recent Examples of unshapely As a child, Salinas spent countless hours in his father’s sooty workshop, watching him transform unshapely metal into useful objects. Elisabeth Biondi, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshapely
Adjective
  • The top has a relaxed, slouchy silhouette that’s far from frumpy.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Though details of the plot and characters have been kept tightly under wraps, the first teaser for the film did let one cat out of its bag: Brolin will be playing a frumpy, bearded priest.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The folks at Fox (News) are like, ‘Oh, this is so unbecoming of a governor.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025
  • While being a glory hog is unbecoming, business leaders need to communicate their AI plans, processes and goals to increase trust—in their leadership and plans—and ensure adoption at scale within their organization.
    Daniel Ramsey, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Lamar’s performance of his slanderous mambo was the only real moment of drama and tension amid the Philadelphia Eagles’ unaesthetic beatdown of the Kansas City Chiefs.
    Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2025
  • Insufficient split, bent and separated legs and unaesthetic body position are a few of the others that fall under that category.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • In short, the frumpish foursome were suggesting that holders of the top judicial office, current and former, tried to influence justice by shunting cases towards particular judges.
    The Economist, The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
Adjective
  • Batemen gets a few moving monologues, but Vince’s heavier dose of morbid witticisms aren’t enough to overcome his pervasive selfishness and abominable behavior (nor is a late-arriving revelation about his past).
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The murder of 1,200 people, including 36 children, in a surprise attack by a terrorist group was an abominable crime.
    Alia Brahimi, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • Maxwell comes off as both pathetic and loathsome.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2025
  • And Trump’s targeting of college campuses for being havens of antisemitism has caused a backlash from liberals who might despise that strain of hatred, but find Trump equally as loathsome.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • The cupcake, nevertheless, looks repulsive.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But the idea of cloning my father’s voice is repulsive to me.
    Adam Verner September 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And putting it on her fingers and in your babies mouth is disgusting.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Because there are more aliens aboard the Maginot than just a Xenomorph, Hawley adds a few new wrinkles to the usual disgusting Alien progression of face-hugger to chest-burster.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Unshapely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshapely. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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