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- noun The quality of being
flatfooted .
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Examples
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Now the two tech icons are running neck and neck -- a reversal of fortune the bloggerati are inclined to ascribe to a combination of Steve Jobs 'genius and Microsoft's flatfootedness.
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The Al Gore for whom I will be making the case is one that I believe will be recognizable to all who have followed his career, including his awkwardness and his occasional political flatfootedness in 2000.
It's Got to Be Gore: Part III-- There's No Adequate Alternative 2007
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The very flatfootedness of her style becomes an asset in embodying a strange or exotic theme; she is at her best when her narrative realism is used in the service of an imaginative vision.
In the Disintegrating City Dinnage, Rosemary 1975
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Underneath the snow is ice, so that walking on it is a feat of diligent flatfootedness.
Daily News-Record 2010
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Tommy lets her actors shout a little too often, and unwisely lets McClain overplay the outside organizer's flatfootedness.
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The Penguins 'flatfootedness caused them to allow the opening goal for the seventh time in their last eight games.
Kuklas Korner 2009
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