Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect.
1 Constant stooping over the kitchen range had made her a little round - shouldered .
2 His posture went from erect and square-shouldered to slightly slumped and round - shouldered .
3 She had always seemed such a mouse: round - shouldered , and small, and meek.
4 Tcheprakov was not of robust constitution: he was narrow-chested, round - shouldered , and long-legged.
5 At home she was a little round - shouldered drudge in her mother's service.
6 He was a tall, lean man, quite round - shouldered and of studious appearance.
7 He was tall, round - shouldered , with a long, sharp nose and bald head.
8 The new Canon was a round man, round - shouldered , round-faced, round-stomached, round legged.
9 The big, round - shouldered sand-dunes were the sleeping giants of some old northern tale.
10 Though slightly round - shouldered , her form was well-proportioned and suggested natural vigour.
11 Say goats to him and he actually gets round - shouldered and limps.
12 He stooped and was a little round - shouldered , but even then he was tall.
13 The man listened round - shouldered , but seeming much too stupid to understand.
14 In the kitchen was a low iron stove and a small round - shouldered refrigerator.
15 Cairnsmuir and Ben Gairn stood out south and north like blue, round - shouldered sentinels.
16 He was a New Englander, a carpenter, round - shouldered , tall and bony.
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