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heavy-footed

/hev-ee-foot-id/US // ˈhɛv iˈfʊt ɪd //

脚步沉重,笨重的脚步,步履沉重,笨重的脚

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : clumsy or ponderous, as in movement or expressiveness: music that is heavy-footed and uninspired.

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Examples

  • The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

  • “There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.

  • The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.

  • “JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.

  • Up till then I was just a dog-assed heavy, one of the posse.

  • The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.

  • Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.

  • It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.

  • Hunter-Weston despite his heavy losses will be advancing to-morrow which should divert pressure from you.

  • Heavy firing continued all that afternoon, inflicting great loss on the rebels, whilst the Spaniards lost one soldier.