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Definition of Heavy-footed
1. Adjective. (of movement) lacking ease or lightness. "His tired heavy-footed walk"
Definition of Heavy-footed
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) Slow-moving. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavy-footed
Literary usage of Heavy-footed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1837)
"The heavy-footed craft is extinct, or rather the grub has been transformed into
an enviable shape ; a farmer, now, is frequently a man of education and ..."
2. New Collection Methods: A Systematic Treatment of the Place of Collections by Edward Hall Gardner (1918)
"The heavy-footed, tactless man of dull perceptions and slow sympathies makes a
poor wielder of collection appeals. Clumsy appeals to good-will may become ..."
3. General Joseph Graham and His Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History by William Alexander Graham (1904)
"My mother was too heavy-footed to go, and I had to stay with her. "But the British
were often sore belied in my notion. It was the Tories did the m'ost ..."
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