What is "misshapen"

Usage examples of "misshapen".

As the day crawled on, the tens of frozen bodies became blebbed and misshapen.

Sher Dil sliding down the steep slope of shale to the river below, picking himself up at the bottom and plunging into the water, and then they moved out of the swirling smoke to surround him, small and misshapen in their quilted uniforms, each carrying a rifle that seemed too large for him, an old-fashioned sword bayonet on the end.

Scratch even the nicest of them and deep down you find a misshapen, egomaniacal, amoral monster.

The doppleganger tore away the rest of its fleshlike covering and revealed a black, misshapen head.

I did notice Morfans, for he was the ugliest man I ever saw, so ugly that he took pride in his twisted looks, goitred neck, hare lip and misshapen jaw.

He stood there in a misshapen overcoat of Hesh that turned from brown to green and then colorless in the morning light, fell off in globs onto the floor.

Together they produced a child named Hisser, of indeterminate sex, whom they tried so very desperately to love, but who was, in fact, a hideous mutant with six legs, four arms, sucker pads on its hands and feet, a mouth half as big as its misshapen head, blazing red eyes, and an adorable mass of springy blond curls that once made Shirley Temple weep bitterly with envy.

But still, we did have a misshapen sort of punt of our own, with a lugsail we were hardly strong enough to hoist: it was the most crossgrained brute that ever swam, and although it was so monstrous heavy, it would overset for a nothing.

Between them were smaller lumps of plants or mushroomlike things of different colors, as if in their misshapen bodies they aped flowers of the upper, clean world.

When I opened them again it was to see something flat, misshapen, elongated like a reflection in a spoon, something that had been Savage lying on the floor, and stretched out over it the huge serpent studying me with its steely eyes.

Misshapen armour and harnesses of leather, stretches of brightly coloured cloth, shiny as silk.

The former was badly misshapen, narrowing as a dome but with numerous unsightly bulges upon the crown and scant, rotten tufts of grey hair.

The huts and shacks were as squat and misshapen as the boneheads themselves.

These are inbred remnants of the true cavemen, the ones who gave rise to all the legends of under-earth dwellers and fierce, misshapen trolls who steal babies.

Indeed, Toc the Younger was studying that towering fastness, an antiquated monastery warped misshapen by military accretions: battlements and enfilading walls, vast gatehouses and sheer-walled trenches.