heavy-footed
Example Sentences
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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
“One True Loves” is a lot like the 1940 Cary Grant/Irene Dunne/Randolph Scott screwball classic “My Favorite Wife” — except that it’s heavy-footed and drippy instead of lively and funny.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 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
Dele Alli was given heavy-handed - or more precisely heavy-footed - treatment from Lithuania as they tried to light the short fuse that has brought Tottenham's 20-year-old some unsavoury headlines in his short career.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2017
The heavy-footed ones looked them over and returned them to the boss who put them in an envelope and put the envelope in his desk.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
