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单词 ill-proportioned
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Definition of ill-proportioned in English:

ill-proportioned

adjective
  • Badly or wrongly proportioned.

    an ill-proportioned and meagre space
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The design firm recently transformed the house by simply removing its ill-proportioned shutters and building a small, covered front porch.
    • The classical prototype for Pisanello's famous drawing of dancing maenads is all but unrecognizable in the ill-proportioned and ungainly women he drew.
    • The painting depicts six posturing and ill-proportioned girls by a wooded stream and was shown in 1848.
    • Complaints have followed, some that the new building will overwhelm the Commons, others that the model he's produced is ungainly and ill-proportioned by itself.
    • Some ill-proportioned pointed arches are to be found in John's reign, and even in the latter end of Henry the second.
    • Sharon's guidebook tells them that the tomb is a poor imitation of the Taj Mahal, ill-proportioned and awkward.
    • This gloomy, ill-proportioned little cell, facing the din of Tottenham Court Road, was the very essence of the budget hotel chain.
    • I could do a better "tyger" myself than the ill-proportioned tomcat Blake squeezed into the bottom of the plate bearing his most famous poem.
    Synonyms
    baggy, badly cut, sack-like, tent-like, oversized, boyfriend, sagging, saggy, slouchy, ill-fitting, inelegant, unshapely, formless
 
 

Definition of ill-proportioned in US English:

ill-proportioned

adjective
  • Badly or wrongly proportioned.

    an ill-proportioned and meager space
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I could do a better "tyger" myself than the ill-proportioned tomcat Blake squeezed into the bottom of the plate bearing his most famous poem.
    • Sharon's guidebook tells them that the tomb is a poor imitation of the Taj Mahal, ill-proportioned and awkward.
    • Complaints have followed, some that the new building will overwhelm the Commons, others that the model he's produced is ungainly and ill-proportioned by itself.
    • The design firm recently transformed the house by simply removing its ill-proportioned shutters and building a small, covered front porch.
    • The classical prototype for Pisanello's famous drawing of dancing maenads is all but unrecognizable in the ill-proportioned and ungainly women he drew.
    • This gloomy, ill-proportioned little cell, facing the din of Tottenham Court Road, was the very essence of the budget hotel chain.
    • The painting depicts six posturing and ill-proportioned girls by a wooded stream and was shown in 1848.
    • Some ill-proportioned pointed arches are to be found in John's reign, and even in the latter end of Henry the second.
    Synonyms
    baggy, badly cut, sack-like, tent-like, oversized, boyfriend, sagging, saggy, slouchy, ill-fitting, inelegant, unshapely, formless
 
 
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