ADJECTIVE
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having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
a little oldish misshapen stooping woman
How To Use round-shouldered In A Sentence
- Bend at the hips, not the waist or back - this will help prevent you from getting too round-shouldered.
- Sim was a round-shouldered curiously oafish-looking man, not large but shambling in gait, with a chubby face which was like that of an overgrown baby, and which was capable of good humor. Such, Such Were the Joys
- The round-shouldered promoter spent the morning wandering about looking lugubrious.
- Tammie's debosh and my own, besides the trifle of threepence to the round-shouldered old horse-couper with the slouched japan beaver hat. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
- The change between the diffident, round-shouldered little brother to this long legged, broad shouldered, hulked out fighting machine happens in a blink, and it is marvelous. Supernatural: Swan Song - Pink Raygun.com
- Mrs. Archer had been born a Newland, and mother and daughter, who were as like as sisters, were both, as people said, ` ` true Newlands ''; tall, pale, and slightly round-shouldered, with long noses, sweet smiles and a kind of drooping distinction like that in certain faded Reynolds portraits. The Age of Innocence
- Just a few stalks will have a round-shouldered, introverted schlump like me oozing androsterone out of every pore! Celery: Viva Veggie Viagra!
- They sat round-shouldered on two hard bar-stools, facing the mirror which ran along the wall. LOST CHILDREN
- She was round, round-bellied, round-shouldered, round-hipped, and always smiling, always jolly.
- Some studies have shown that a consistently round-shouldered posture may cause a shortening in one of the shoulder ligaments (the band of tissue that connects the bones).