unshapely

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Recent Examples of unshapely As a child, Salinas spent countless hours in his father’s sooty workshop, watching him transform unshapely metal into useful objects. Elisabeth Biondi, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unshapely
Adjective
  • However, if that same button-up is wrinkled, your outfit will look seriously frumpy.
    Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Lots of volume Styling your sleeveless knit with voluminous silhouettes—like a puff-sleeve blouse and/or billowy pants—may sound, well, frumpy.
    Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This is unbecoming of the office.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
  • By their own admission, this leads to a loss of a state religion and an exploration of different possible lifestyles unbecoming of a true American.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lamar’s performance of his slanderous mambo was the only real moment of drama and tension amid the Philadelphia Eagles’ unaesthetic beatdown of the Kansas City Chiefs.
    Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2025
  • Insufficient split, bent and separated legs and unaesthetic body position are a few of the others that fall under that category.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • In short, the frumpish foursome were suggesting that holders of the top judicial office, current and former, tried to influence justice by shunting cases towards particular judges.
    The Economist, The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
Adjective
  • The Raiders have had three regimes pay really good money for three consecutive veteran quarterbacks who have been abominable.
    Vic Tafur, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • With the return of Worthy, whose tremendous rookie year was punctuated with his eight-catches for 157 yards and two touchdowns in the otherwise abominable Super Bowl loss to the Eagles, everything else was both more in its place and expanded through his presence.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Maxwell comes off as both pathetic and loathsome.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2025
  • And Trump’s targeting of college campuses for being havens of antisemitism has caused a backlash from liberals who might despise that strain of hatred, but find Trump equally as loathsome.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Someone may have had the impulse to say something despicable about the assassination of Kirk or expressed some repulsive attitudes towards a particular group of people that warranted social pressure.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Parasites are repulsive enough in the wild, but coming across one in your food takes the gross-out factor to a whole other level.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Football is a way of bringing people together irrespective of their faith, colour or religion and this disgusting decision does the exact opposite.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • These are more disgusting smears peddled by the media and billboard law firms.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Unshapely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unshapely. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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