lead-footed
Example Sentences
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Shakespeare’s play and its title character can be viewed from many perspectives, and one positive aspect of Tata’s production is that it doesn’t turn the play into a lead-footed contemporary political allegory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
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
A lead-footed touch from Higuain breaks up a promising attack in the middle, but Nigeria’s long ball to try to spring a counter goes straight to Armani in the Argentina end.
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2018
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
