Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Round-shouldered \Round"-shoul`dered\, a. Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
Wiktionary
a. Having a rounded upper back, and shoulders that bend forward.
WordNet
adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman" [syn: hunched, round-backed, stooped, stooping, crooked]
Usage examples of "round-shouldered".
The spindling, round-shouldered, unathletic Brutus looked like a Praxiteles boxer, bulging with muscles, and suitably endowed with an imposing penis, plump long scrotum.
The soft-looking, round-shouldered chancellor, Polites, was also with the king, as was fat Antiphones, and the slender Dios.
Donough told the round-shouldered, brown-haired Cumara, who in spite of being a widower was but a decade older than himself.
The short, round-shouldered Captain Tushin, stumbling over the tail of the gun carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out shading his eyes with his small hand.
But the round-shouldered men did not wonder or turn away when they saw Simcha walking with his grandson.
The round-shouldered old men looked at Duddy and decided he was mean, a crafty boy, and they hoped he would not hurt Simcha too hard.
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden--what a sorry, set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
Arnold Protter was a thickset round-shouldered man in his late thirties with the ample belly of a beer drinker and the red nose of a whiskey drinker.
Like the real Krum, the model was slightly duck-footed and round-shouldered, much less impressive on his splayed feet than on his broomstick.
She was very stooped and round-shouldered from osteoporosis, and her arthritis seemed to flare up more often.
A youngish Levite, ugly and round-shouldered, slung a lemon rind which struck Peter square in the face.
The woman's husband, a short, round-shouldered man in the undress uniform of a civilian official, with sausage-shaped whiskers and showing under his square-set cap the hair smoothly brushed forward over his temples, with expressionless face was moving the trunks, which were placed one on another, and was dragging some garments from under them.
The husband of the family, a short, round-shouldered little man in undress uniform, with wheel-like little side whiskers and lovelocks brushed smoothly from under his cap, with impassive face, was sorting the trunks piled one on top of the other, and trying to get some clothes out.