shapeless
A filthy dress hung shapelessly on her as she slumped over the kitchen table.
A shadowy figure appeared, draped shapelessly in black.
His words were spinning shapelessly in her head.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Patterns and shapes
amorphous
arabesque
argyle
asymmetrically
asymmetry
fishhook
flecked
formless
formlessly
fretted
saltire
scalloped
scissor
semilunaris
shapeable
wavery
wavily
weave
willow pattern
zigzag

Examples of shapelessly

shapelessly
A red-and-white checkered shirt, floating shapelessly in the still water of a bathtub.
From TIME
The laces were gone and the whole upper sprawled shapelessly.
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Huge camels loomed shapelessly through the uncertain haze.
From Project Gutenberg
A brown silk dressing gown fell shapelessly about his spare frame and smoke from his cigarette rose in a quivering blue-white stream.
From Project Gutenberg
An old soft hat fell shapelessly forward over his deeply bronzed face, his neck and most of his arms were uncovered.
From Project Gutenberg
The darkness shadowed everything, the bulk of the keel-boat alone appearing in the distance, and that, shapelessly outlined.
From Project Gutenberg
There was yet a darker thing which hung shapelessly in this gradually settling obscurity, a thing of dread that waited beside the other shadowy comforter.
From Project Gutenberg
Its gown hung about its frame as shapelessly as though the frock had been hung upon a clothespole!
From Project Gutenberg
He was an easy, gormandizing, good fellow, shapelessly fat, and he never had stirred himself during his month of freedom to do any courting.
From Project Gutenberg
Up off the ground went the two uprights and the ridge-pole, the canvas hanging shapelessly from the ridge-pole.
From Project Gutenberg
What an inferno of desperation and defeat rose shapelessly about her!
From Project Gutenberg
My threadbare jean clung shapelessly about me, there was thick dust on my old leggings and a rent in my broad hat, which trifles were, by comparison, not without significance.
From Project Gutenberg
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