hunchback
noun
hunch·back
ˈhənch-ˌbak 
plural hunchbacks
1
often offensive
: a person with a humpback
2
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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
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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
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“Hunchback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hunchback. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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