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heavy-footed

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heav·y-foot·ed (hv-ftd)
adj.
Having a ponderous, lumbering gait.
heavy-footed
adj
having a heavy or clumsy tread
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Adj.1.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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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.
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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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