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شَنَعْنَعٌ

Root: شنع

Full Definition

شَنَعْنَعٌ Incongruous, unsound, weak, or faulty, [and therefore unseemly,] in make; as also أَشْنَعُ الخَلْقِ; applied to a man: the former is from الشُّنُوعُ: and some say that it signifies tall.
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