It's downright ill-proportioned which is why I think you want to pull it up. From Wordnik.com. [Pockets! - A Dress A Day] Reference
They resembled nothing so much as ill-proportioned hammers, but Chavi was pleased with them. From Wordnik.com. [And Other Tales Of Valdemar]
A portrait of Haydn at this time shows a man of short, substantial build, and a somewhat ill-proportioned frame. From Wordnik.com. [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference
It produced its belated and ill-proportioned Five Year Plan only in 1928 C.E., eleven years after its accession to power. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
T. Cook, p. 380 Or, “how do you make a well-proportioned corselet fit an ill-proportioned body? how well proportioned?”. From Wordnik.com. [Memorabilia] Reference
"I want that one," he repeated confidently, and pointed to the most ill-proportioned of an ill-conceived litter of mongrels. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
Another figure stood on the far side of the bed, slighter, less ill-proportioned than the boy, but unmistakably of the same race. From Wordnik.com. [Web Of The Witch World]
It was a solid double-fronted late Georgian residence faced with stucco, to which two ill-proportioned bow windows had been added. From Wordnik.com. [Cargo of Eagles]
The characters are ill-proportioned so that it is sometimes hard to tell between an adult and a child; and overall it not clean or solid. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Journal: Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms] Reference
Painting is a thing utterly unknown, and sculpture, where found, deals in shapeless blocks and huge, massive, ill-proportioned forms, analogous to the primitive Egyptian art. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The state barge was as long as five of the fighting galleys laid end to end, but its height and breadth were so ill-proportioned that they gravely offended my artistic instincts. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
It was the shambling, ill-proportioned lads who suffered most. From Wordnik.com. [We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys] Reference
Everybody's off-model, ill-proportioned, and jerking around onscreen. From Wordnik.com. [Subatomic Brainfreeze] Reference
This ill-proportioned bird in shape and general appearance is like the. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
The human forms in this design are ill-proportioned, and very rudely traced. From Wordnik.com. [History of Phoenicia] Reference
Large and ill-proportioned figures are frequently attempted in these designs. From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
In the Loggia de 'Lanzi is the somewhat ill-proportioned group of "Judith and Holofernes". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
The Comte de Peralada was a young man with a pleasant face but with an ill-proportioned body. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
The thoughts that were bright and shapely by day become dark and ill-proportioned like shadows. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Sketches] Reference
A book may be legible, strong, and durable, yet ill-proportioned and clumsy, ugly in every detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Booklover and His Books] Reference
By sternomancy, which maketh nothing for thy advantage, for thou hast an ill-proportioned stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
The chamber walls were covered with bas-reliefs in the ill-proportioned and careful carving of the. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Island] Reference
There was a noble lady, fair and comely in all respects except that she was short and ill-proportioned. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
He was at least six feet in height, with long limbs, an ill-proportioned body, and a small, round head. From Wordnik.com. [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference
Then how do you manage to make the corselet well proportioned if it is to fit an ill-proportioned body?. From Wordnik.com. [The Memorabilia] Reference
He was standing up on the hearthrug, his ill-proportioned figure thrown into strong relief by the firelight behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Swindler and Other Stories] Reference
Just like the loveable green ogre, the ill-proportioned stature and unique personality of the Soul is strangely appealing. From Wordnik.com. [Car Advice | News Blog] Reference
Less successful, in fact quite ugly, but quaint, are those in which very large and ill-proportioned figures are represented. From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
He was profoundly ill-proportioned, very goitrous, and ravages of small-pox had bequeathed to him a wonderful facial ugliness. From Wordnik.com. [Across China on Foot] Reference
This ill-proportioned estimation, these vain imaginations, these be the clouds of error that turn into the storms of perturbation. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference
Beyond this, I remember with affection the ill-proportioned little Place des Hommes; not at all monumental, and given over to puddles and to shabby cafés. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Tour of France] Reference
Grecian marble, though uncouth and ill-proportioned, impresses a sort of veneration, and transports the fancy to the twilight glimmering period when it was raised. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference
The Sitka Islanders, as well as their neighbours on the continent, are large and strongly built, but have their limbs so ill-proportioned, that they all appear deformed. From Wordnik.com. [A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2] Reference
They were the most ugly, ill-proportioned people the explorers had yet seen; dark-coloured and rather diminutive, with long heads, flat faces, and monkey-like countenances. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries] Reference
As we rushed by the cavern's mouth we caught a hasty glimpse of him, looking somewhat like an ill-proportioned figure, but considerably more like a heap of fog and duskiness. From Wordnik.com. [Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories] Reference
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