heavy-footed

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heav·y-foot·ed

(hĕv′ē-fo͝ot′ĭd)

adj.

Having a ponderous, lumbering gait.

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heavy-footed

adj

having a heavy or clumsy tread

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heav′y-foot′ed

adj.

clumsy or ponderous.

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heavy-footed - (of movement) lacking ease or lightness; "his tired heavy-footed walk"

light-footed - (of movement) having a light and springy step; "a light-footed girl"

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Friend, those heavy-footed, foolish English are coming to speak with the Mugger."

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Here and there little flocks of ravenous birds were sailing and screaming above those spots where some heavy-footed Teton had met his death, but every other sign of the recent combat had passed away.

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The humming of flies among the evergreen shrubs under the window penetrated drowsily into the room; and the tramp of a heavy-footed cart-horse, plodding along the high-road beyond the garden, was as plainly audible in the stillness as if it had been night.