Adjective : a shapeless mass of clay. From Dictionary.com.
There was one thing that survived the "shapelessness". From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
From shapelessness, it had taken an all too familiar shape. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
Light and dark and shapelessness resolved into sand and rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Trumps of Doom]
Soon they melted into shapelessness, and spread over the mush. From Wordnik.com. [Robot Adept]
Its very shapelessness gives it an incredible expressive power. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Ten Minutes] Reference
Quarried for centuries, its remnants were a colossal shapelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]
It has that kind of sort of innocence, and that sort of shapelessness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2005] Reference
The two men lit cigars and waited; Shelby's was gnawed to shapelessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Those saddle shoes really accentuate the shapelessness of your lower leg. From Wordnik.com. [things I hadn’t posted | clusterflock] Reference
He swung again and again, beating its body, into shapelessness before he turned to Duff. From Wordnik.com. [When the Lion Feeds]
They gave on a walled courtyard where a sandstone idol loomed, eroded well-nigh to shapelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Some vision, yes; of shapelessness, of colourlessness, of the unlit, and therefore of the sizeless. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
The shapelessness of the exterior demonstrated what could happen when the facing stones were removed. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
But this shapelessness -- this earth invisible and unformed -- was not numbered among the days itself. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
Shapes grew out of shapelessness gradually, even the curves and slopes of the dunes were dimly perceptible. From Wordnik.com. [His Disposition] Reference
For an infinitesimal time, Makun's face reflected horrified comprehension before it melted into shapelessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Weakling] Reference
Their window of perfection is indeed brief, a day or two at most, then a slow descent towards soft shapelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Tender delights] Reference
Battered and crumbled almost to shapelessness, it rose before us like some vast monster in the centre of the harbor. From Wordnik.com. [The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative] Reference
A smock covered her into shapelessness, and her spectacular hair was bound up in a kerchief, but she still looked good. From Wordnik.com. [Security] Reference
I see the Duro resemblance, but I also see the hiked up front hemline and the over-all shapelessness of the sillouette. From Wordnik.com. [You Can Has? - A Dress A Day] Reference
In the drawer Elspeth encircled Valentina, pressed her into a soft shapelessness, kept her from diffusing, kept her close. From Wordnik.com. [Her Fearful Symmetry] Reference
I knew only too well what was in Hansen's mind's eye: that charred and huddled shapelessness that had once been my brother. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Station Zebra]
There he was, grizzled and leathery, dressed in a denim shirt, faded Levi's, and shoes worn into comfortable shapelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
Clinton's shapelessness and perpetual motion was not only effective politically but in tune with the borderless and high-speed times. From Wordnik.com. [So Long, Music Man] Reference
It reached for the black opening in the great shell, found it, and the whole loathsome shapelessness poured itself up and through the hole. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
There was one immense green shapelessness that kept straining to reach him, impinging on his consciousness like a flint striking sparks from another rock. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
To these must be added a certain mental shapelessness, which can expand or contract without reference to reason or record -- a potential infinity of excuses. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
Her hair was cropped short, and she seemed to sag all over, as though her body were trying to conform to the shapelessness of the dress instead of the reverse. From Wordnik.com. [But, I Don't Think] Reference
The Earth, O lord, was soon covered with human beings that were crushed into shapelessness or trodden down by elephants and steeds and with others that roared in great affliction. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
I see its dim shapelessness going before the men of blood, and marshalling their way. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
Michael Smith: Those saddle shoes really accentuate the shapelessness of your lower leg. From Wordnik.com. [clusterflock] Reference
Nor the length or shapelessness of the hospital gown (at least the bagginess offers a kind of disguise). From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
But it never falls into the mere shapelessness which was so common with his immediate and younger contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
The music's shapelessness is both primeval and elegantly sculpted, while its animism brought the hall's distant nooks and crannies to life. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
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