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hunchbacked::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, kyphotic |
Examples of hunchbacked
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Richard is a hunchbacked Renaissance Stalin with a monstrous thirst for power.
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Instead of Schiller, a large man, it actually belonged to a hunchbacked woman.
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The hunchbacked prince probably held some hope for succession from his father.
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Shakespeare's hunchbacked king works his mad way from the battlefield to the bedroom.
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Symptoms included becoming hunchbacked, losing hair and losing weight.
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Clinging to his board, Ryan slid down the hunchbacked swell into the wide trough between waves.
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Here in 1560 Claude de Valois, the hunchbacked daughter of French queen Catherine de'Medici, had held sway.
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The title character is a hunchbacked lab assistant in Malaria, a land of monsters and evil scientists.
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Cackling, it drops down behind a lichen-scaled blackthorn and hops along like a hunchbacked clockwork toy.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Crookback: characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
- (hunchback) humpback: a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
- Kyphosis (Greek - kyphos, a hump), also called hunchback, is a common condition of a curvature of the upper spine. It can be either the result of degenerative diseases (such as arthritis), developmental problems, osteoporosis with compression fractures of the vertebrae, and/or trauma.
- (The Hunchback) The Hunchback is a 1914 American silent short drama film directed by W. Christy Cabanne and written by Anita Loos. The film stars William Garwood, Frank Turner, Edna Mae Wilson and Lillian Gish.
- (The Hunchback (1997 film)) The Hunchback is a film based on Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It stars Salma Hayek as Esmeralda and Mandy Patinkin as Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame. ...
- (hunchback) One who is stooped or hunched over; A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back; A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance
- (Hunchback) A disfigured ogre of a man who Baron von Ghoul has taken in. He's very protective of his (perceived) handsome face.
- (Hunchback) To dream of a hunchback, denotes unexpected reverses in your prospects.
