Definition of "ill-shapen" [ill-shapen]

• So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."
• "This is a result, no doubt, of the "deliberate ferocity" of their "bad sewing," as Linda Nochlin points out in one of the best essays in the show's accompanying catalog — but also because that bad sewing is of a piece with the innocuous terry cloth and cotton jersey Bourgeois often uses and with her figures 'bulgy, vaguely ill-shapen contours."
• "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."