unshapen

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshapen
Adjective
  • There is a wealth of knowledge and experience here to sift through and, at times, the film’s editing leaves these individual’s offerings unshaped or unclear.
    Sarah-Tai Black, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • Years ago, these yew shrubs were dishevelled & unshaped, so The Prince tasked his gardeners with creating their own intriguing topiary designs.
    Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2020
Adjective
  • If successful, this productive force— supposed to be restorative, in at least some visions—would grow up in symbiosis with primitive fossil capital.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • These samples provide insights into primitive carbonaceous material, the water, and the organic content of early solar system bodies.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • But back in the time of Galileo, the phenomena of electricity and magnetism were only understood in the most rudimentary of fashions; by the 19th century, they had been investigated much more thoroughly.
    Big Think, Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The Prelude’s rear seat is so rudimentary, Honda didn’t even provide a photo of it.
    Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Lockhart had previously told Deadline about visiting the property on Martha’s Vineyard — the unfinished summer retreat of a brutalist architect that had fallen into disrepair after his death — that would serve as inspiration for the setting of her new novel.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Alex Van Halen wants to use AI to complete unfinished Van Halen songs, but Wolfgang isn’t a fan of the technology.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Over the past four decades, amateur lawmakers worked across party lines far less often than incumbent lawmakers, both when developing their own legislation and when lending support to other legislators’ proposals.
    Jeff Harden, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Frankie Piliere, who has been the team’s director of amateur scouting the past two years, now holds the title of vice president of amateur forecasting and player evaluation initiatives.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of our older colleagues slammed it as unprofessional, while others called it courageous.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • They’ve been stigmatized as unkempt or unprofessional, banned in schools and workplaces through discriminatory policies that the CROWN Act was created to dismantle.
    Jailynn Tayor, Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This annoyed Potter, who felt holding talks in such a public place was an amateurish move.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Bannon, for his part, slammed Kennedy's effectiveness as health secretary, calling his efforts to implement an anti-vaccine agenda unserious and amateurish.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The network also reported female health workers saying that their newer colleagues were likely to be unskilled women who came from Taliban-loyal families.
    NPR, NPR, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Unfortunately, the rest of the roster is too big and unskilled, a downstream consequence of buying into the fiction that Davis is a power forward.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Unshapen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshapen. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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