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misshapen (adj.)

"having a bad or ugly shape, crippled, deformed, monstrous," also "degraded, perverted," late 14c., from mis- (1) "badly, wrongly" + old alternative past participle of shape (v.). The verb misshape (1520s) is perhaps a back-formation.

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Definitions of misshapen from WordNet

misshapen (adj.)
so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly;
misshapen old fingers
Synonyms: deformed / distorted / ill-shapen / malformed
From wordnet.princeton.edu