flatfoot
Example Sentences
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There was clogging, stomping and flatfoot dancing; the Dutch and English square-dancing with the Africans and the Irish.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2021
At seventy-five, he has the florid, bulbous mug of a cartoon flatfoot, if that flatfoot were descended from Lithuanian Talmudists and six generations of Jerusalemites.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014
In comparison, Hauer’s silver-haired superman is more human than human, and finally more complex than Ford’s victimized flatfoot.
From Time • Jun. 25, 2012
More polished than the dancers at Fries, everyone knew how to flatfoot, and the tap shoes kept the time.
From New York Times • May 20, 2011
He'd done nearly five blocks before a flatfoot steps out of a doorway and waves a nightstick at him.
From Torchy and Vee by Ford, Sewell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.