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barefooted

ADJECTIVE
without shoes
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
shoed


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The few hundred in attendance spanned the full spectrum of AfD voters: young men in black bomber jackets and Lonsdale sweaters, elderly couples, barefooted hippies with braided beards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

He struts around shirtless and shoeless; his wife and homeschooled sons, Stryker and Rad, pad about barefooted as well.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025

I had the blessing of traveling to Yaxunah in Yucatán, México, to meet a special group of indigenous women that defied their society, culture and history, just by picking a softball and running bases barefooted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024

And yet he found it amusing that a barefooted boy with big dreams growing up in rural Jamaica would be celebrated by communities, the nation and Royalty alike.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024

I saw few or no dilapidated houses, with poverty-stricken inmates; no half-naked children and barefooted women, such as I had been accustomed to see in Hillsborough, Easton, St. Michael’s, and Baltimore.

From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass




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