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loose-footed

/loos-foot-id/US // ˈlusˈfʊt ɪd //

松散的脚步,宽松的脚步,松散的脚,松散的脚步声

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Nautical.

    • : not having the foot bent to a boom.

Examples

  • As of Thursday night, the brothers remained on the loose, last seen in northern France.

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

  • Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?

  • Biden is, of course, famous for being a bit loose in his public remarks.

  • He was pinned to the cement for his refusal to go along with an arrest for selling loose cigarettes.

  • Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

  • She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.

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

  • "I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.

  • For good or ill, the torrent of rebellion was suffered to break loose, and it soon engulfed a continent.