humpbacked

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It is awesome to witness an enormous reptile with a huge, humpbacked shell and enormously thick legs glomp slowly forward, with majestic indifference to the gawkers by the trail, myself included.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

The work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2021

He said his car went off the narrow, humpbacked bridge and plunged into the pond.

From Washington Times • Jul. 16, 2019

Neither the humpbacked 747 nor the cherry-red public buses that crisscross London surpass the Big Mac as the world’s most famous double-decker.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2016

But thank God we did not see any of these, only humpbacked lizards as big as your arm which the people here catch and eat They love meat.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker