Adjective : Points (,The points (. From Dictionary.com.
Their clerestory contains plain and uninteresting three-light windows, which are, moreover, unsymmetrically placed with regard to the arches beneath them. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The same is true of plants: the daisy's petals are a perfect example of radial symmetry and the branches of a tree extend unsymmetrically in all directions from the trunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Even to this day the north-east wing of Perrault's façade projects unsymmetrically beyond the line of the north front. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paris] Reference
Now when we have a spinning body, say a top, overloaded on one side so that gravity acts on it unsymmetrically, what happens?. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Science] Reference
The north transept already had a large chapel of two stages upon its eastern side, so that the plan was treated unsymmetrically. From Wordnik.com. [The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church] Reference
The spruces were gnarled and twisted by the wind, a number of them were dead, and many leaned unsymmetrically athwart each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Intriguers] Reference
That was not the way I ended it first -- but unsymmetrically, preposterously, illogically, out of passion, without art -- like a song of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Becket and other plays] Reference
Others resemble pieces of stick with all the minutiae of knots and branches, formed by the insects 'legs, which are stuck out rigidly and unsymmetrically. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
They hang loosely about shrubs in the forest, and have the extraordinary habit of stretching out their legs unsymmetrically, so as to render the deception more complete. From Wordnik.com. [Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays] Reference
The mixed Gothic and Romanesque interior of +Sienna Cathedral+ (Fig. 150), with its round arches and six-sided dome, unsymmetrically placed over the crossing, is one of the most impressive creations of Italian mediæval art. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
He remembers, besides the works of art which he has seen, the fact of having walked a great distance through straight corridors, up and down short flights of marble steps, and through irregularly shaped and unsymmetrically disposed halls. From Wordnik.com. [Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome] Reference
Considering them as rotating solid bodies, he pointed out that they could not maintain their position unless their weight were in some way unsymmetrically distributed; but made no attempt to determine the kind or amount of irregularity needed to secure this end. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
They hang loosely about shrubs in the forest, and have the extraordinary habit of stretching out their legs unsymmetrically, so as to render the deception more complete. ". From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
This is unsymmetrically fabulous!!!!!!!. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
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