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misshapenness

/mis-shey-puhn, mish-/US // mɪsˈʃeɪ pən, mɪʃ- //UK // (ˌmɪsˈʃeɪpən) //

畸形,错位,畸形现象,错乱

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : badly shaped; deformed.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indeformity

Examples

  • A half year on, I have thrown misshapen bowls, a smattering of wobbly cups and precarious vases that fold at the neck.

  • Prions are misfolded, misshapen forms of normal proteins, called prion proteins, that are commonly found in human and other animal cells.

  • With pebble accretion, planets may form from misshapen rings of dust and gas that swirl around a star.

  • There is no market for misshapen truffles, so hunters are squeezed to find perfect specimens — which becomes difficult when the harvest relies on uncontrollable conditions.

  • So Lawrence’s season isn’t the best of his three, but it’s an incomplete and misshapen national season.

  • This is a Leskov story, a monument to its own misshapen massiveness.

  • Relatively misshapen and formless, the dorsal figure is perhaps even more expressive of physical torment.

  • These magic roots have the likeness of a little man, hideously ugly and misshapen in a weird and diabolic fashion.

  • And before the other word could pass her lips, a strange misshapen form had darted from under the tree.

  • Three fair things that hide ugliness: good manners in the ill-favoured; skill in a serf; wisdom in the misshapen.

  • Durgin had crumpled down into a misshapen heap on the floor and the sight we saw was enough to make your blood run cold.

  • Ling had seemed so hairy, so misshapen, like a troll out of Gothic legends.