heavy-footed

Example Sentences

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There’s the usual heavy-footed deployment of the “comedy! comedy!” score to cue us to laugh or have feelings.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023

It’s apparently by design that England appears ponderous and heavy-footed and deathly afraid that the opposition might stumble into a chance to counter against them.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2021

She came out flat and uptight, heavy-footed, knotted up and short-stroking compared with the magnificent corner-to-corner running of Halep, who has 10 fewer years in her legs.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2019

Instead, Mr. Nunn strode back and forth, gesturing expansively, circling his actors in a heavy-footed dance.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2016

The heavy-footed ones looked them over and returned them to the boss who put them in an envelope and put the envelope in his desk.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith