ill-drawn

If on the other hand the portrait is ill-drawn or ill-painted, all the reasoning in the world and the praise of all the sycophants will not save the picture from contempt and the artist from censure.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Secondly, notions are ill-drawn from the impressions of the senses, and are indefinite and confused, whereas they should be definite and distinctly bounded.

The New Organon 2005

And yet, in some indescribable way, she kept recurring like a motive in music through all his mad adventures afterwards, and the glory of her strange hair ran like a red thread through those dark and ill-drawn tapestries of the night.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

It is generally the land that saves a poorly conceived character or an ill-drawn situation.

Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

We can pardon in a portrait-gallery of such extent here and there an ill-drawn figure or a face wanting in expression.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

She looked round her pretty drawing-room in which, with a spinster's instinct for preserving old family treasures, she had gathered and garnered antique pieces of furniture, ill-drawn family portraits, and chairs covered with the worsted-work and beadwork of fifty or sixty years ago.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

That is no longer possible, and a whole category of humour, integral to our literature till 1800 or thereabouts, has dwindled down to these ill-drawn post cards, leading a barely legal existence in cheap stationers’ windows.

The Art of Donald McGill 1942

The regimental office was a large room that had once been decorated by wan and ill-drawn mural paintings in the manner of

Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933

Therefore, shapes that merely fill gaps will be ill-drawn.

Art Clive Bell 1922

It was not only that they were ill-drawn, or that the colour was put on amateurishly by someone who had no eye for it; but there was no attempt at getting the values, and the perspective was grotesque.

Of Human Bondage 1919