Definition of "shapelessness" [shapelessness]

• The property of being shapeless. (noun)
• The result or product of being shapeless. (noun)

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• "Like the contemporary criticism of Olympia, for example, which jeered at Manet for his crude indecency, or that of War and Peace, which condescended to Tolstoy for the inept "shapelessness" of the novel, it now seems magnificently misguided."
• "There was one thing that survived the "shapelessness"."
• "He was clad in faded overalls and black cotton shirt, with hobnailed brogans on his feet, and on his head a hat whose shapelessness and stains advertised the rough usage of wind and rain and sun and camp-smoke."