The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SHAPELESS
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More clues leading to the result SHAPELESS
- Dumpy son, unfortunate, without energy
- Amorphous sulphur underneath rock made from mud is seen around Peru and Sweden
- Son miserable about sweetheart lacking form
- Criminal lapses, he’s without form
- Son unlucky to embrace sweetheart that’s dumpy
- Dumpy, small, unfortunate: close to collapse inside
- Lumpy son, unfortunate, requiring injection of energy
- Without form, singular unlucky traveller essentially stuck
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What does SHAPELESS mean?
SHAPELESS adjective- Without a clearly defined or identifiable shape