clubfooted
- a word derived from clubfoot.
Example Sentences
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The crown prince “has been rather clubfooted and has scared away investors,” Joshua Landis, director of the Middle East Center at the University of Oklahoma, said in a phone interview.
From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2018
The single Otis boldly samples Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness, an idea that veers wildly from inspired – at one point the ballad is manipulated into a propulsive sweaty grunt-a-thon – to a clubfooted mess.
From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011
Though his most implacable enemies admit his genius as a propaganda technician, few people in Germany, even in the Nazi Party, have any personal admiration for warp-minded, clubfooted Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old woman is stocky and clubfooted, a compact metaphor for stubborn dedication; her grandson is so spindly he could ride Giacometti's Chariot; Bruno the dog has more personality than 101 Dalmatians.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first this seemed a mystery, until Geyer recalled that Nellie was clubfooted.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
