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Ill-proportioned   /ɪl-prəpˈɔrʃənd/   Listen
Ill-proportioned

adjective
1.
Lacking pleasing proportions.





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"Ill-proportioned" Quotes from Famous Books



... seemless^; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous^, unbeautiful; beautiless^, semibeautiful; shapeless &c (amorphous) 241. misshapen, misproportioned^; monstrous; gaunt &c (thin) 203; dumpy &c (short) 201; curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked &c (distorted) 243; hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing. graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... was a young man with a pleasant face but with an ill-proportioned body. He was a great debauchee and lover of bad company, an enemy of religion, morality, and law. He was directly descended from the Comte de Peralada, who served Philip II. so well that this king declared him "count by ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... that one," he repeated confidently, and pointed to the most ill-proportioned of an ill-conceived litter of mongrels. Helen raised shaking hands to ...
— The Short Life • Francis Donovan


Words linked to "Ill-proportioned" :   unshapely


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