Definitions
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- adverb In a
shapeless manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a shapeless manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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I don't like loose guy tees that just hang shapelessly on me either.
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More than half of the clothing I own sags in the butt, hangs shapelessly around my mid-section, or well and truly bores people into comas.
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We are entirely made up of bits and pieces, woven together so diversely and so shapelessly that each one of them pulls its own way at every moment.
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At one that rolled along the ground, breaking shapelessly and trailing out reluctantly into long grappling ribbons and bands, all three horses began to shy and dance.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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Her head was covered in a scarf, and the gray dress fell shapelessly almost to the ground.
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On the hill-side beyond the shapelessly-diffused town, and in the quiet keeping of the trees that gird the village-steeple, remembrances are cut in stone, planted in common flowers, growing in grass, entwined with lowly brambles around many a mound of earth.
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The holiday makers who roam this region had not wholly dispersed; a few couples sat shapelessly on benches; and here and there a distant girl still shrieked in one of the swings.
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The holiday makers who roam this region had not wholly dispersed; a few couples sat shapelessly on benches; and here and there a distant girl still shrieked in one of the swings.
The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003
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The holiday makers who roam this region had not wholly dispersed; a few couples sat shapelessly on benches; and here and there a distant girl still shrieked in one of the swings.
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Within its confines, as seen through the leafless branches of the hedge, granite cenotaphs and enormous Victorian monuments bulked shapelessly against the bare sliver of a waning moon.
Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999
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