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heavy-footed

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of movement) lacking ease or lightness
    his tired heavy-footed walk

How To Use heavy-footed In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • A middle-aged woman with stiff, wood-colored curls all over her head was advancing on her, marching in heavy-footed determination.
  • Movement is suggested less by the heavy-footed dancers than by the writhe and flamboyance of the composition.
  • Peter came heavy-footed up the stairs and then went into his bathroom down the corridor. THE WHITE DOVE
  • He stood up, thinking that he sounded like a caricature of a heavy-footed cop. LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
  • David heard a series of thumps as the heavy-footed Cath made her way down and back up the basement stairs.
  • He is too heavy-footed to handle speed, can't slide laterally and has to be conscious of his inside help.
  • Such an unfocussed and scatter-gun assault is already pressing sympathetic buttons, and profiting from the usual heavy-footed public relations blundering of the municipal authorities, and the straight-man impressionability of patronizing editorialists. Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy 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.
  • 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.
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