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One who is stooped or hunched over.
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A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.
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A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.
Examples of hunchback in a Sentence
Rostov went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise learned that Dolokhov the brawler, Dolokhov the bully, lived in Moscow with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate of sons and brothers.
Victor Hugo also wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Her appearance in The Hunchback of Notre Dame made her the first actress to earn ten million dollars for a movie role.
His mother was Ida d'Ardenne, sister of the fourth Godfrey ("the Hunchback"),.
Charles had previously contracted a union, probably of an irregular nature, with a Frankish lady named Himiltrude, who had borne him a son Pippin, the " Hunchback."
I don't want to screw around and play against the big leagues in Philadelphia; all your friends with the crazy middle names like, 'The Shiv' and 'The Hunchback' and 'Three Fingers'—really neat nicknames like that.
Then Bobby meets the shell-shocked, hunchback fire-eater of the title.
Kyphosis. Kyphosis is an abnormal outward curvature of the spine at the back, sometimes called hunchback when it occurs in the upper back.
She had quite an extensive career with parts ranging from Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) to The Last Dance (TV, 2000).
The cathedral of Notre Dame is a gothic building famed for its stunning architecture and involvement in the classic Victor Hugo novel about a hunchback living in its tower.
After the attempt of Bean - who was a hunchback, really insane - parliament passed a bill empowering judges to order whipping as a punishment for those who molested the queen; but somehow this salutary act was never enforced.
Something soft is of course nice, but not too soft, otherwise your muscles lose their tensile strength and you'll look like the hunchback of Notre Dame in a year's time.
The culminating point of that part of the Carioca range which projects into and partly divides the city is the Corcovado (Hunchback), a sharp rocky peak 2329 ft.