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hunchbacked

/huhnch-bakt/US // ˈhʌntʃˌbækt //

驼背,驼背的,驼背的人,踽踽独行

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : humpbacked.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indeformed

Examples

  • 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.