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hunchbacked
[ huhnch-bakt ]
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Origin of hunchbacked1
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Example Sentences
Playing the hunchbacked Igor—pronounced “Eye-gore”—Marty is clearly having a ball.
On returning to the dining-room, I perceived that the picture representing Rigoletto, the hunchbacked jester, was no longer there.
Hunchbacked, with bloodshot eyes, he made up for his bodily defects by a facetious disposition.
But suppose the ‘fair lady’ should be ugly, hunchbacked, a shrew, or a troublesome coquette.
The door was opened by a sickly, hunchbacked lad who begged us to walk in, and who seemed to be quite alone there.
He spoke of the “Gray Streak,” of a hunchbacked Indian, of swift dog teams and of a curious cavern beneath the snow-covered earth.
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