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
From the Ashes of Lidice The happiest man in the world when Tobruk fell was Germany's clubfooted Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels.
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
