round-shouldered

[ round-shohl-derd, -shohl- ]

/ ˈraʊndˈʃoʊl dərd, -ˌʃoʊl- /

having the shoulders bent forward, giving a rounded form to the upper part of the back.

Origin of round-shouldered

First recorded in 1580–90

Pyotr, a round-shouldered student in spectacles, kept exchanging glances with his mother as he ate his dinner.

The Wife and Other Stories |Anton Chekhov
Redmond was pale and round-shouldered; Gilby lank and tall; and their speech was usually vivid and their tempers quick.

The League of the Leopard |Harold Bindloss
As though in answer there comes springing through the dim light the hulking, slouching, round-shouldered figure of a big man.

A War-Time Wooing |Charles King
He was only five feet eight inches tall, round-shouldered, and not at all military in bearing or walk.

Stories of Later American History |Wilbur F. Gordy

He was tall, round-shouldered, and his clothes were not good, possessing very evident claims to a position on the retired list.

A Chosen Few |Frank R. Stockton

round-shouldered

denoting a faulty posture characterized by drooping shoulders and a slight forward bending of the back

round-shouldered

Having the shoulders and upper back rounded.