The dress hung shapelessly on her thin body. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a shapeless mass of clay. From Dictionary.com.
I don't like loose guy tees that just hang shapelessly on me either. From Wordnik.com. [Star Wars Clothing for Her - Pink Raygun.com] Reference
One of Denver's far-too-large sweaters hanging shapelessly past her hips. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Noses Warm Kisses]
Her head was covered in a scarf, and the gray dress fell shapelessly almost to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
His "Shake Your Booties" T-shirt had given way to a white linen suit that hung shapelessly on his shapeless body. From Wordnik.com. [Shock Value]
Prairie stretched all about him, endlessly and shapelessly, the warm wind rustling and rattling through the dry grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
Last of all, she drew forth from the bottom of her trunk a heap of white drapery which tell shapelessly across her arm. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Mirth] Reference
The once jaunty panama hat hung shapelessly about his ears and from beneath it a plaster of blond hair slanted across his forehead rakishly. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
I was wearing one of those dreadful hospital gowns like a barber's smock that fastened at the back of the neck and shapelessly covered the body. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Flip Flop « So Many Books] Reference
He drifted shapelessly in the mists, seeped down into the still, dangerous marshlands, and felt the morning frost silver his face as it hardened over mud and reeds and tough marsh grasses. From Wordnik.com. [Harpist in the Wind]
They were small in stature and shapelessly clad in black. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
Agatha fancied that the soft hat, which fell shapelessly over part of. From Wordnik.com. [Hawtrey's Deputy] Reference
Agatha thought that the soft hat, which fell shapelessly over part of. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Wheat-Lands] Reference
England can be far better friends when sharply divided than when shapelessly amalgamated. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in America] Reference
On his physical side, he was shapelessly strong and hopelessly ugly, a big, shock-headed blond. From Wordnik.com. [Angel Island] Reference
Vague thoughts that stream shapelessly through her mind like long sad vapors through the twilight sky. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English] Reference
Slowly wilting at waist and knees, his figure slipped to the floor and lay shapelessly huddled near that of Karyl. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighted Match] Reference
An old soft hat fell shapelessly forward over his deeply bronzed face, his neck and most of his arms were uncovered. From Wordnik.com. [Prescott of Saskatchewan] Reference
Last of all, she drew forth from the bottom of her trunk a heap of white drapery which fell shapelessly across her arm. From Wordnik.com. [House of Mirth] Reference
Wendy Kaminer in an Atlantic piece somewhat shapelessly takes on the whole "is libertarianism dominating the out-of-power GOP?". From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
The mists of slumber still hung about him, and the events of the last forty-eight hours showed vast and shapelessly threatening through them. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Summer] Reference
A chill began galloping up and down my spine, for there, under the juniper tree, was really a "white thing," shapelessly white in the gathering gloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career] Reference
Then, indeed, we find the border treillages of flower-stem or leaf-work starting from meaningless points of the design, or scattered shapelessly at random. From Wordnik.com. [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference
Sami was there -- Sami, rolled shapelessly in the concealing bedclothes, his round face hidden in the pillow, his black hair just a blot of darkness on the white. From Wordnik.com. [The Window-Gazer] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
Now there were in those days, and indeed still are, certain uncleanly cities upon the river of Time; and from them fearfully nameless things came floating shapelessly by. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-One Tales] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown] Reference
Some pulled spasmodically on the very long limber oars; others squatted doing nothing; some, huddled shapelessly underneath white cloths that completely covered them, slept soundly in the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [African Camp Fires] Reference
A whole world seems to part those dreary flats broken with lifeless inlets, those patches of sodden fields flung shapelessly among sheets of sullen water, from the life and joy of the Grand Canal. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Studies from England and Italy] Reference
All the shuddering pictures of him rose up before me, the last, that of him standing by the lock gates and suddenly running like a frightened rabbit, with his jaunty soft felt hat squashed shapelessly over his ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
But they wonder shapelessly. From Wordnik.com. [Can Brown's inner circle be broken?] Reference
Fall quite as shapelessly to dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse] Reference
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