Word: misshapen
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...last week the picture was correct: a great expanse of camouflage netting still covered her bulk. Next morning the picture looked the same-until experts scanned it. The hidden bulk was queer, slightly misshapen. Close examination showed that the shape under the camouflage net was not the Scharnhorst, but a 530-ft. tanker with smaller vessels at bow and stern to give her the Scharnhorst's length, with scaffolding built up to look like the battleship's superstructure...
Epstein's statues have started riots, thrown academicians into fume and sputter, horrified bishops, even worried Scotland Yard. They have been tarred and feathered, lathered with green paint, censored with fig leaves. They have been called ''bestial, hideous, obscene, monstrous, misshapen, vile...
...rest were monsters, comic grotesques, mental cases, or blank nonentities: calf-eyed Mihaïl, who died of melancholia; Elizabeth, the hard-drinking, nominally virgin queen whose beer-barrel figure enabled her to pass off her pregnancies as "indigestion"; infantile, impotent Peter III and insane Paul, "as ugly and misshapen as an abortion," both hideously murdered; Nicholas II's hard, huge, colorless papa; Nicholas himself, "the most pitiful in Russian History," a densely obstinate little man who developed, under the indignities of his jailers, an almost heavenly meekness. Romanovia...
...fierce, misshapen reptile--possibly a Dodatmor throwback--slithers up to the window and stares maliciously at Vag with evil eyes. He opens his well-toothed jaws and measures the distance to Vag's head. There is a metallic crash as teeth meet the iron skull. Vicious fool, you cannot get Vag. See, Vag does not even blink. This is mere phantasmagoria compared to The Four encountered on The Bottom. They were truly fearsome, especially to one numbed with the icy breath of the Great Fear, one who cannot fight back. The Four had come at him--zing, zing, zing, zing...
...battering the puck about like an old shoe. The usual result of such a foray into enemy territory is a terrific 10-man collision, the nucleus of which is the man with the puck. There is no escaping this sort of defense. Then Lowell's Bud Doering takes the misshapen rubber disk that has been beaten to a pulp by the Winthrop bludgeons, and careens down the ice until by the time he crosses the blue line nothing is seen but a blur with skates on. At this point another ear-splitting collision occurs. The bodies are wheeled...