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How to use misshapen in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective, verb

Misshapen means having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen. Example: “The archaic past participle shapen is only used in misshapen, ill-shapen, and well-shapen (the latter two are much less common, though).”

Examples of misshapen by meaning

verbSynonym of misshape.

  • Few persons realize to what extent shoes are misshapened by defective feet.1924 January 4, William M[athias] Scholl, “Ten Simple Exercises to Help Strengthen Your Feet”, in The Mexia Daily News, volume XXVI, number...
  • Skin the fish before cooking since the skin shrinks as it cooks and misshapens the fillets.1997, Kay Pastorius, Cruising Cuisine: Fresh Food From the Galley, Camden, Me.: International Marine, a division of The McGraw-Hill...
  • Large barrel sponges are misshapened by the strong currents2005, Solomon Baksh, Trinidad & Tobago (Macmillan Caribbean Dive Guides), Oxford, Oxon: Macmillan Caribbean, →ISBN, page 71

More sentences with misshapen

  • The archaic past participle shapen is only used in misshapen, ill-shapen, and well-shapen (the latter two are much less common, though).From the entry latter
  • Excessive heating in the kiln may produce misshapen bricks known as crozzles.1938, William Barr McKay, McKay's Building Construction. From the entry crozzle
  • Something misshapen and unruly is rising in its place.2026 June 17, Callie Holtermann, “The Blobby, Drippy Maximalist Design You’re Seeing Everywhere”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry blanding
  • The misshapen, clumped cells are termed cornified.2011, Margaret V. Root Kustritz, Clinical Canine and Feline Reproduction: Evidence-Based Answers, page 7. From the entry squame
  • The woman’s knees were swollen, misshapen knobs of bone.2010, Bruce Macbain, Roman Games, Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 181. From the entry potioner
  • Your buttocks will be flat and taut, living with muscle and blood, not misshapen by poor eating and oversitting.1964, Frank Smith, Brothers' keepers, page 112. From the entry oversitting
  • His shoulders were so misshapen they almost met over his sunken chest and they were topped by a pointy egghead, bald but for a few short sproutings of hair.2015, Christopher Rush, Penelope's Web. From the entry egghead
  • He threw himself down on the far side and saw a white, hellishly misshapen creature pulling itself from beneath a jackstraw tumble of atlases and travel volumes.1990, Stephen King, “The Library Policeman”, in Four past Midnight. From the entry jackstraw
  • After all, there might be some queer and perhaps hereditarily misshapen outcasts in those shunned hills, even though no such race of star-born monsters as folklore claimed.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness. From the entry hereditarily
  • The man was a Hercules, or perhaps a Vulcan would be better, since his right leg was twisted and misshapen, and sensibly shorter than its fellow.1906, Alfred Henry Lewis, “The Man with the Crutch”, in Confessions of a Detective, New York, N.Y.: A[lfred] S[mith] Barnes & Company…. From the entry Vulcan
  • Todd still gripped the misshapen reddish chimneytop in the fist that had collapsed the roof, flattening the gingerbread house and with it the little cookie snowman and snowwoman and snowchild.1978, DeKalb Literary Arts Journal: The Magazine of Literature and the Arts of DeKalb Community College, volume 12, page 11. From the entry snowchild
  • A large percentage of all Late Horizon fragments at this site was overfired, to the point where many were vitrified, black to dark brown, and misshapen, some with blistered surfaces.1976, Dorothy Menzel, Pottery Style and Society in Ancient Peru: Art as a Mirror of History in the Ica Valley, 1350–1570, Berkeley…. From the entry vitrify

Meaning of misshapen

  1. adjective Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen.
  2. adjective Morally or intellectually warped.
  3. verb Synonym of misshape.

Full definition of misshapen

Questions about misshapen in a sentence

How do you use misshapen in a sentence?
Misshapen is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “The archaic past participle shapen is only used in misshapen, ill-shapen, and well-shapen (the latter two are much less common, though).”
What is a short sentence with misshapen?
“The misshapen, clumped cells are termed cornified.”
What does misshapen mean?
Misshapen means having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misshapen (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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