hunchbacked

[ huhnch-bakt ]

adjective

1. humpbacked.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hunchbacked¹

1590–1600; blend of huckbacked see ( humpbacked ) and bunchbacked

Example Sentences

Sansom to feature Matthew Shardlake, a hunchbacked lawyer-turned-detective whose exploits solving chilling murders in Tudor England come steeped in suspense and granular historical detail.

From New York Times

This could easily have read as romantic attraction; but as Zac Nicholson’s camera zooms in on Hawkins’s wonderfully unguarded features, we see instead the stirring of a mission, one that will upend her life and alter history: to find Richard’s grave and disprove his reputation as a hunchbacked nephew-killer and unworthy usurper.

From New York Times

Hunchbacked, he dragged himself over to me, and despite his size, we were eye-to-eye.

From Literature

Sipress’s father, Nathan, had escaped dirt floors and pogroms in Medzhybizh, Ukraine, via a horse cart and then a voyage crowded into steerage with four siblings, one of whom, hunchbacked, was almost turned away at Ellis Island until their determined mother intervened, “like a queen.”

From New York Times

Mr. Sher delivered his breakthrough performance in 1984, starring in “Richard III” as the play’s hunchbacked title character.

From Washington Post

Related Words

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