slew-footed
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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While playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins in a game on Dec. 7, 2013, Orpik was slew-footed by the Boston Bruins’ Shawn Thornton and took a hard fall.
From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2016
The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge.
From Time Magazine Archive
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