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单词 heavy-footed
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Definition of heavy-footed in English:

heavy-footed

adjective
  • Slow and laborious in movement.

    动作迟缓的;笨手笨脚的;吃力的

    the All Blacks make the Lions' pack look heavy-footed

    全黑队让雄狮队疲于奔命。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He can be made to look a bit heavy-footed in defence, at times even slow.
    • Haydn, even if marginally heavy-footed, is always a party for your ears and woefully underrated in this country.
    • Development of the worldwide web carries on at such a pace that heavy-footed government can never keep up.
    • A hypocritical, pompous, cowardly and sanctimonious bully, Carp makes his heavy-footed way through life completely blind to his own faults and acutely aware of the faults in others.
    • A middle-aged woman with stiff, wood-colored curls all over her head was advancing on her, marching in heavy-footed determination.
    • He is too heavy-footed to handle speed, can't slide laterally and has to be conscious of his inside help.
    • And I can hear the clump clump clump of the three posh post-university flatsharing chums thumping about their flat upstairs, slamming doors, shouting to each other and walking heavy-footed across my dream-flat.
    • The two fine goals against Denmark were a proper reward, but he terrorised the heavy-footed German defence too.
    • Two squeaky-shoed and heavy-footed audience members demonstrated their passion for 20 th-century classical music by stomping out in the break after the first movement.
    • Movement is suggested less by the heavy-footed dancers than by the writhe and flamboyance of the composition.
    • David heard a series of thumps as the heavy-footed Cath made her way down and back up the basement stairs.
    • Actually he is not so much slow as a little heavy-footed.
    • No less relevant is that it is much more difficult, when he is picked in the midfield, for opponents to play on the fact that he can be a little slow and heavy-footed on the turn.
    • The ballad ‘Angel’ is earthy and heavy-footed, but has a tired grace that rescues it from what could've become cement shoes.
    • And visitors can be very heavy-footed when they're used to houses.
    • Out here, just because the government says something is true doesn't make it so, and the heavy-footed federal presence during the five-year manhunt didn't help matters.
    • While Tanek was limping so heavily it was as if Valeska was watching a badger, ward the wolves away by its heavy-footed trot.
    Synonyms
    clumsy, awkward, blundering, bumbling, lumbering, shambling

Definition of heavy-footed in US English:

heavy-footed

adjectiveˌhevēˈfo͝odədˌhɛviˈfʊdəd
  • Slow and laborious in movement.

    动作迟缓的;笨手笨脚的;吃力的

    the whole occasion could resemble a heavy-footed hippo dance in mud
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is too heavy-footed to handle speed, can't slide laterally and has to be conscious of his inside help.
    • Movement is suggested less by the heavy-footed dancers than by the writhe and flamboyance of the composition.
    • He can be made to look a bit heavy-footed in defence, at times even slow.
    • Out here, just because the government says something is true doesn't make it so, and the heavy-footed federal presence during the five-year manhunt didn't help matters.
    • Two squeaky-shoed and heavy-footed audience members demonstrated their passion for 20 th-century classical music by stomping out in the break after the first movement.
    • While Tanek was limping so heavily it was as if Valeska was watching a badger, ward the wolves away by its heavy-footed trot.
    • The two fine goals against Denmark were a proper reward, but he terrorised the heavy-footed German defence too.
    • Actually he is not so much slow as a little heavy-footed.
    • Haydn, even if marginally heavy-footed, is always a party for your ears and woefully underrated in this country.
    • And I can hear the clump clump clump of the three posh post-university flatsharing chums thumping about their flat upstairs, slamming doors, shouting to each other and walking heavy-footed across my dream-flat.
    • And visitors can be very heavy-footed when they're used to houses.
    • The ballad ‘Angel’ is earthy and heavy-footed, but has a tired grace that rescues it from what could've become cement shoes.
    • David heard a series of thumps as the heavy-footed Cath made her way down and back up the basement stairs.
    • A hypocritical, pompous, cowardly and sanctimonious bully, Carp makes his heavy-footed way through life completely blind to his own faults and acutely aware of the faults in others.
    • A middle-aged woman with stiff, wood-colored curls all over her head was advancing on her, marching in heavy-footed determination.
    • Development of the worldwide web carries on at such a pace that heavy-footed government can never keep up.
    • No less relevant is that it is much more difficult, when he is picked in the midfield, for opponents to play on the fact that he can be a little slow and heavy-footed on the turn.
    Synonyms
    clumsy, awkward, blundering, bumbling, lumbering, shambling
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