heavy-footed

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A humongous part of Trump’s brand is how strange he looks: moist, heavy-footed, and dripping with peroxide.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2024

There’s the usual heavy-footed deployment of the “comedy! comedy!” score to cue us to laugh or have feelings.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

She came out flat and uptight, heavy-footed, knotted up and short-stroking compared with the magnificent corner-to-corner running of Halep, who has 10 fewer years in her legs.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2019

Instead, Mr. Nunn strode back and forth, gesturing expansively, circling his actors in a heavy-footed dance.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2016

Then his slow, heavy-footed movement across the room.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini