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ill-proportioned


  • s  lacking pleasing proportions

  • The Met's figure of a girl frightened by a snake, done at Hchst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness.
  • Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel (848 pages), The Pasquier Chronicles reaches its modest distinction only when its central character, the tireless Papa Pasquier, gets .
  • In the ill-proportioned Illinois Capitol, whose windows look out over the rolling Lincoln country, Republicans cheerfully and riotously voted an investigation of fuel oil rationing.

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