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adj. - Characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column.

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Usage examples (6)
  • The driver, a crookbacked man with a thick white beard, said: “Guests of the lady Andromache.”
  • If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.
  • Mr. Cooper conceives that crookbacked usurper with sufficient accuracy, reads it with tolerable correctness, and acts it with great spirit.
  • More serious-minded revelers (and the maudlin drunks) gathered about a crookbacked goblin bard who had reached the one-hundred-sixty-fifth verse of a lugubrious ballad...
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