She carries no trailing skirts, nor has she ill-shapen ankles to hide.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

It was a dwarfed, ill-shapen human body, with short, crooked legs and long emaciated arms with grinning joints.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Smile of God] Reference

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Todd Kashdan: What You Don't Know About Creating a Happy, Meaningful Life] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

The two-piece 'ensemble' (to use fashion magazine talk) was the work of a designer who'd amassed a fortune making women look ill-shapen, overdressed, and foolish.    From Wordnik.com.  [I is for Innocent]

I noticed at the same time, that a singular change took place in the figure of the man, — as if it collapsed within his clothes, and they consequently became ill-shapen and ill-fitting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunted Down] Reference

Anywho, the girls want to go to South Padre, and while I'm sure its full of drunken revelry and the like, I think we could find a place for cheaper and that wouldnt require me to fit my ill-shapen body into a swimsuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [happychelsea Diary Entry] Reference

We say of a man who passes in the street that he is ill-shapen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.] Reference

But there are well and ill-shapen plants, and monstrosities too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

This unprofitable piece of property, ill-shapen, and disfigured, Capt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission--Also to a Seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment to Be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life; With an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston] Reference

He was of low stature, ill-shapen, and with a strongly-marked and repulsive countenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans,] Reference

At that instant he caught sight of his mother's ill-shapen figure cowering over the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference

His neighbour, with equal zest, was creating very ill-shapen clay animals, birds and fishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference

It was not a bad omelette, though not quite innocent of wood-ash, perhaps, and somewhat ill-shapen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories] Reference

"No, my dear," returned Lady Evans, "I never heard of a pad to make straight an ill-shapen disposition.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Simple Story] Reference

The men have ill-shapen trousers coming to the ankle, and the loose kabia jacket, all of the same black material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference

First of all I set me down at the very outskirts of the woodland, and raised me a bower there, rude and ill-shapen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

She was no longer a beautiful rose; no, nor even a reminiscence of one, -- simply a colorless, scentless, ill-shapen mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Cross and Other Tales] Reference

A large, ill-shapen lump against the trunk of one of the trees on the bank showed that he was leaning there resting himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 3] Reference

He was a huge, ill-shapen, muscular fellow, old but still vigorous, and in his small black eyes twinkled an unsounded depth of shrewdness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Lights and Shadows] Reference

I do not like his hands; I cannot say why; they are neither big nor ill-shapen, but there is something fat and feminine about the fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel] Reference

Furthermore he was ugly and ill-shapen, and so great a fop that he was not ashamed to relate the story of his conquests in France and Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

She was fat and ill-shapen and clumsy, with a pale, greenish tinge to her complexion, watery, whitish-blue eyes, very rough thin hair, and ragged, scrubby eyebrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oldtown Folks] Reference

Starting from the respiratory and proceeding to the muscular system, he and his immediate pupils were content to refer to the ill-shapen bodies of most men about them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference

The difference was noticeable enough; Lydia's was not ill-shapen, but there were marks on it of all the rough household work which she had never permitted her sister to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thyrza] Reference

I'm turning back to ask one of them to see me home; and he'll not deny me, as he'll not be backward to pound every bone in your ill-shapen body if he hears what I've to tell. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Merry-Garden and Other Stories] Reference

(v. 5): "Therefore, because they were so rough and ill-shapen, I have hewn them by the prophets, as timber or stone is hewn for use; I have slain them by the words of my mouth.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

They are always very black, ill-shapen, and dwarfish, and have countenances of a very African character.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ramayana. English] Reference

"Well, then" -- said Mrs. Bell, in her rambling way -- "Clara Walton is very beautiful and very bright, and that makes it more strange poor Henry should be so ill-shapen and dull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodbine Cottage] Reference

'I mean, a head ill-shapen,' explains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

The ill-shapen wight, whenas the fear gat him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

Ill-dressed, ill-shapen, ill at ease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

The structure is also "ramshackle" (Kemp) and "ill-shapen, lopsided, rough-hewn" (Robson).    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference