Definition of "hunchbacks" [hunchbacks]

• Plural form of hunchback. (noun)

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• "You have to look at the way "hunchbacks" are used as symbols of twistedness, * crookedness*, in Victorian novels in the same terms."
• "Was it possible that she, with her sovereign beauty, that beauty which she herself had ever adored and nursed, making it her one care, her one religion -- was it possible that she had given birth to such a graceless creature, with a dark, goatish profile, one shoulder higher than the other, and a pair of endless arms such as hunchbacks often have?"
• "He assembles a diverse cast of Spanish hidalgos, German adventurers, Indians, hunchbacks and suspected sodomites."