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as in distorted
badly or imperfectly formed
a shapeless old hat
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as in amorphous
having no definite or recognizable form
right now this clay is just a shapeless lump, but wait until I'm done sculpting it
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Recent Examples of shapeless
Their few internal organs drift freely in their shapeless bodies, which lack even a digestive tract.
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Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024
With villains ranging from all-powerful shapeless beings to merry pranksters of the mind, this is a show that dips its toe in the superhero pool right before delivering the world’s most graceful and enigmatic cannonball.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 25 July 2024
On every hand are old men and women, seamed, withered, shapeless, big-jointed from a lifetime of hard labor with corn and pigs.
—Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
The domestic security net is as strong yet as delicate as a spider web, as omnipresent yet as shapeless as water.
—Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
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Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024
With villains ranging from all-powerful shapeless beings to merry pranksters of the mind, this is a show that dips its toe in the superhero pool right before delivering the world’s most graceful and enigmatic cannonball.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 25 July 2024
On every hand are old men and women, seamed, withered, shapeless, big-jointed from a lifetime of hard labor with corn and pigs.
—Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
The domestic security net is as strong yet as delicate as a spider web, as omnipresent yet as shapeless as water.
—Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
See all Example Sentences for shapeless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shapeless
Adjective
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Her sound has exploded into a kind of psychedelic opera, first spawning from emo rap, then eventually evolving into distorted electropop.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2025
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The house itself is an architectural anomaly, the distorted vision of a distorted mind.—
Gayle Sequeira,
Vulture,
20 Jan. 2025
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In a tragic instant, Thompson became a scapegoat for the legitimate—but until now, amorphous—rage people have about America’s health-care system, in which a company’s profits can be someone else’s broken life.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
25 Jan. 2025
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One of your machines—the one that cuts the dough into tiny trees—passed its manual maintenance check a few months ago but suddenly begins producing amorphous blobs of dough instead of crisp, clean cuts.—
Bill Rokos,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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His films may have never depicted the place in flames, exactly, but more than one framed Hollywood as a surreal and monstrous syndicate.—
Will Bahr,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Leonard was the workhorse on a monstrous 18-play, 75-yard touchdown drive to open the game.—
Charles Odum,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Right was formless, fractured, a collection of irritable mental gestures -- and then William F. Buckley Jr. founded this journal, bringing the various respectable strands of conservatism together and discarding the others.—
Ramesh Ponnuru,
National Review,
19 Dec. 2024
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That doubtlessly makes Skeleton Crew feel more formless than would be acceptable if the series had been trimmed down to a movie.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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Robert pulled a misshapen earthenware pot from the hotel room’s closet.—
Oren Peleg,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The condition, which occurs due to a portion of the skull being misshapen or too small, can cause symptoms like headaches, dizziness and vertigo, weak muscles, difficulty with balance or coordination, neck pain, trouble swallowing or breathing, insomnia, seizures, slow heart rhythm and more.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The series shows what life is really like for the Baldwins — chaotic, funny, exhausting and filled with love.—
Kimberly Nordyke,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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Spaces brimming with personality that feels intentional and curated, as opposed to chaotic.—
Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This momentum is driven by Hybrid Cloud’s comprehensive portfolio, which provides unified data storage, storage management, and infrastructure solutions for data center modernization, supporting both structured and unstructured data, and encompassing software, hardware, support, and services.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Male Alzheimer’s caregivers group: The Men’s Breakfast Club is an informal and unstructured gathering of male caregivers.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2025
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As chief of patrol, the No. 2 unformed official, Chell has feuded wildly and needlessly with the press and politicians while leading a secretive and highly aggressive quality of life unit.—
Harry Siegel,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2025
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What’s unformed and ungainly here makes that patience finite.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Shapeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shapeless. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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