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adj. - So badly formed as to be ugly.

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  • She carries no trailing skirts, nor has she ill-shapen ankles to hide.
  • It was a dwarfed, ill-shapen human body, with short, crooked legs and long emaciated arms with grinning joints.
  • As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
  • Then she was so very ugly and ill-shapen that not one of the youths of the village would have aught to say to her by way of courtship or marriage.
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