humpbacked

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It is awesome to witness an enormous reptile with a huge, humpbacked shell and enormously thick legs glomp slowly forward, with majestic indifference to the gawkers by the trail, myself included.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

The work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2021

He said his car went off the narrow, humpbacked bridge and plunged into the pond.

From Washington Times • Jul. 16, 2019

Neither the humpbacked 747 nor the cherry-red public buses that crisscross London surpass the Big Mac as the world’s most famous double-decker.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2016

Julius, staring at the strange, humpbacked creature, shook his head.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks