WordNet
crookbacked
adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column [syn: crookback, humped, humpbacked, hunchback, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic]
Usage examples of "crookbacked".
A hobgoblin in the image of Punch Costello, hipshot, crookbacked, hydrocephalic, prognathic with receding forehead and Ally Sloper nose, tumbles in somersaults through the gathering darkness.
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 of doomed Firvulag lovers.
But this man had been crookbacked and hideous, and he looked as though he might have lice.