clubfoot
noun
a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
clubfooted
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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
Someone inquires whether it is really true that the gifted and the clubfooted are placed in the same category.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leinlein is not an ordinary child: he is clubfooted and a genius; he can plot cause and effect, motive and destiny; and in addition he is endowed with searing powers of social criticism.
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
