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adj. - Lacking pleasing shape.

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  • It's downright ill-proportioned which is why I think you want to pull it up.
  • They resembled nothing so much as ill-proportioned hammers, but Chavi was pleased with them.
  • A portrait of Haydn at this time shows a man of short, substantial build, and a somewhat ill-proportioned frame.
  • It produced its belated and ill-proportioned Five Year Plan only in 1928 C.E., eleven years after its accession to power.
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