heavy-footed

The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.
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He pushed it with his foot to the side of the road and was down into the cutting before the heavy-footed neighbours came up.
A Maid of the Silver Sea|John Oxenham
For another mile the now tired and discouraged house-breaker plodded, heavy footed, the unending road.
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These are infinitely more dangerous than the relatively clumsy, heavy-footed, grazing animal.
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All was clear to her, all bright, all real, in "the beyond;" but that kind of evidence is above the realm of heavy-footed reason.
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Heavy-footed Susan went up through the corridors and looked to the lowering of the lights.
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heavy-footed

adjective

having a heavy or clumsy tread

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