Example Sentences

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Joe would have never done anything so flatfootedly procedural!

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2011

“The pieces are to be used,” Mr. Walther wrote, a bit flatfootedly, in the “Spaces” catalog.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2010

They walked fast and flatfootedly, their heads with their peaked caps thrust forward, balancing the packs on their backs.

From Time Magazine Archive

In place of his former somewhat elephantine method of progression he adopted a species of shuffle which had excellent results, for it enabled him to brush twigs away instead of stepping flatfootedly on them.

From Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)