hunchback
noun
hunch·back
ˈhənch-ˌbak 
plural hunchbacks
1
often offensive
: a person with a humpback
2
Examples of hunchback in a Sentence
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At 11 years and change, the enfant terrible is already sporting the hunchback and hook nose, and dreaming of world domination.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 June 2022
Told in two timelines, Geek Love is narrated by the now adult Oly, a Portland radio host and a dwarf with albinism and a hunchback who is determined to keep her family history alive for her estranged daughter.
—Kali Fajardo-Anstine, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
The quintessential da Cunhian paradox mixes beauty and strength with a vision of a monstrous hunchback.
—Ela Bittencourt, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Though there is a rich historical debate over the king’s record, most people still think of him as the power-mad hunchback depicted by Shakespeare.
—Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2021
As a result, the Yennefer in the final episodes is much older than the hunchback novice Yennefer of the first few.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2020
But BMWs product planners turned out to be right about the hunchback of Munich.
—Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 14 Jan. 2020
He was also given a large scarlet birthmark on his face instead of a hunchback.
—Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 25 June 2019
So magnificent are these 300 warriors that they surely would have held the pass indefinitely ... if not for the actions of a scurrilous traitor, Ephialtes, a misshapen hunchback who was too deformed to serve in the Spartan line.
—Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 June 2022
Told in two timelines, Geek Love is narrated by the now adult Oly, a Portland radio host and a dwarf with albinism and a hunchback who is determined to keep her family history alive for her estranged daughter.
—Kali Fajardo-Anstine, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
The quintessential da Cunhian paradox mixes beauty and strength with a vision of a monstrous hunchback.
—Ela Bittencourt, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Though there is a rich historical debate over the king’s record, most people still think of him as the power-mad hunchback depicted by Shakespeare.
—Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2021
As a result, the Yennefer in the final episodes is much older than the hunchback novice Yennefer of the first few.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2020
But BMWs product planners turned out to be right about the hunchback of Munich.
—Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 14 Jan. 2020
He was also given a large scarlet birthmark on his face instead of a hunchback.
—Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 25 June 2019
So magnificent are these 300 warriors that they surely would have held the pass indefinitely ... if not for the actions of a scurrilous traitor, Ephialtes, a misshapen hunchback who was too deformed to serve in the Spartan line.
—Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
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