hunchbacked

Example Sentences

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That is, the hunchbacked hangman’s line from “Blazing Saddles”: “This one is a doozy.”

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times

For the future “great man” of French literature, the book’s main attraction was the gothic cathedral itself, not its hunchbacked bell-ringer.

From The Guardian

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.

From Economist

Though she loves Maurice, Jenny is extremely ambitious and not above playing with fire in the person of a hunchbacked roué of a movie producer named Brignon, impeccably played by Charles Dullin.

From Los Angeles Times