N. shortness,
brevity, littleness, a span,
shortening,
abbreviation,
abbreviature,
abridgment,
concision,
retrenchment,
curtailment, decurtation|, reduction,
epitome,
elision,
ellipsis,
conciseness,
abridger,
epitomist,
epitomizer V. be short, render short,
shorten,
curtail,
abridge,
abbreviate, take in, reduce,
compress,
epitomize,
retrench, cut short,
obtruncate,
scrimp, cut, chop up,
hack,
hew, cut down, pare down,
clip,
dock,
lop,
prune,
shear,
shave,
mow,
reap, crop,
snub,
truncate,
pollard,
stunt,
nip, check the growth of,
foreshorten Adj. short, brief,
curt,
compendious, compact,
stubby,
scrimp,
shorn,
stubbed,
stumpy,
thickset,
pug,
chunky, decurtate,
retrousse,
stocky,
squab,
squabby,
squat,
dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by,
oblate,
concise, summary
Adv. shortly, in short
N. distortion,
detortion,
contortion, twist,
crookedness,
grimace,
deformity,
malformation,
malconformation,
harelip,
monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry,
anamorphosis,
ugliness,
talipes,
teratology,
asymmetry,
irregularity Adj. distorted, out of shape, irregular,
asymmetric, unsymmetric,
awry,
wry,
askew,
crooked, not true, not straight, on one side,
crump,
deformed,
harelipped,
misshapen,
misbegotten, misproportioned, ill proportioned, ill-made,
grotesque,
monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn, camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed,
bandy, bandy legged, bow legged, bow kneed, knock kneed, splay footed, club footed, round shouldered, snub nosed, curtailed of one's fair proportions,
stumpy,
gaunt,
bloated,
scalene,
simous, taliped, talipedic
Adv. all manner of ways
Phr. crooked as a virginia fence, 2, special form
