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hunchbacked
adjective as in deformed
Example Sentences
One of the most well-known is Shakespeare's Richard III, the scheming hunchbacked king.
That is, the hunchbacked hangman’s line from “Blazing Saddles”: “This one is a doozy.”
Rigoletto, a hunchbacked jester at the court of the Duke of Mantua, is approached at night by a mysterious man who says he’s an assassin for hire, should Rigoletto ever need such services.
For the future “great man” of French literature, the book’s main attraction was the gothic cathedral itself, not its hunchbacked bell-ringer.
It is certainly true that until recently Mr Munganasa would never have got away with a show in which an actor bounces around hunchbacked in imitation of Mr Mugabe.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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