lead-footed
Example Sentences
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Gleiberman concluded the film is "lighter, more frolicsome, less lead-footed than such clomping live-action Disney remakes as Alice in Wonderland and Beauty and the Beast".
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025
So you can’t entirely blame movies for lead-footed Angelenos and the notoriety they came to acquire when the glare of publicity and later of the roving aerial spotlight fell upon them.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022
In the second, Tommy Joseph — the Phillies’ lead-footed first baseman — tried stretching a single to left field into a double.
From Washington Post • May 6, 2017
Yet for all the roster upgrades the Knicks made, they still look prepared to roll out lead-footed lineups.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2015
I was standing there, lead-footed with horror, when two men pushed through the door carrying a sheet-wrapped bundle between them.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
