Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a ponderous, lumbering gait.
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- adjective idiomatic Slow-moving.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of movement) lacking ease or lightness
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Examples
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The trio's heavy-footed Krautrock drumbeat was met by a winsome sitar, earning it a place on this compilation of obscurities four decades later.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Rediscovering Legacies in India, Thailand and Indonesia Derek Beres 2011
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Ignoring the herds of traffic galloping past me on my right, as drivers hurried heavy-footed to make the light, I looked up to see the warning signal was flashing.
F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: A Pedestrian Braves the Challenges of Sprawl F. Kaid Benfield 2011
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The trio's heavy-footed Krautrock drumbeat was met by a winsome sitar, earning it a place on this compilation of obscurities four decades later.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Rediscovering Legacies in India, Thailand and Indonesia Derek Beres 2011
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Such an unfocussed and scatter-gun assault is already pressing sympathetic buttons, and profiting from the usual heavy-footed public relations blundering of the municipal authorities, and the straight-man impressionability of patronizing editorialists.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011
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The trio's heavy-footed Krautrock drumbeat was met by a winsome sitar, earning it a place on this compilation of obscurities four decades later.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Rediscovering Legacies in India, Thailand and Indonesia Derek Beres 2011
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The drawback is that clarity of color, form and space are often subsumed by fleeting glimpses and heavy-footed expression.
Enigmatic Bits and Pieces Lance Esplund 2010
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After a somewhat intentionally heavy-footed "Waltz of the Flowers," his young lovers join in a pas de deux intermixed with their entire world: family members, toys, foreign citizens, snowflakes and flowers alike.
A Suite That Cracks the Tchaikovsky Code Robert Greskovic 2010
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Later, heavy-footed encores of "The Rat" and "Little House of Savages" reminded everyone that the Walkmen is still an aggressive rock band, but it didn't need 75 minutes of runway to show us that.
In concert: The Walkmen at 9:30 Club Chris Klimek 2010
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First set: Murray 3-1 Querrey* Hard cheese on those who thought Sam Querrey was nothing more than a heavy-footed American basher with a whopping great serve.
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It transpires that he's a heavy-footed American basher with a big serve, a big forehand and a substantial double-fisted backhand to boot.
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