ADJECTIVE
- with feet flat on the ground; not tiptoe
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forthright and explicit
a flat-footed refusal -
unprepared and unable to react quickly
the new product caught their competitors flat-footed -
having broad flat feet that usually turn outward
a slow flat-footed walk
How To Use flat-footed In A Sentence
- Perhaps, and there's no denying that the interweaving of voices and beatbox rhythms can be flat-footed at times. Times, Sunday Times
- A grandmother trots past flat-footed, the baby jogging on her back stealing the look of me.
- a slow flat-footed walk
- Murray is fine as long as his character isn't waxing poetic, and Laura Teasdale provides some very welcome comic relief as the flat-footed maid Cathleen.
- As the village suffers its first losses at the frontline, conscientious objector George (Thomas), a teacher, is ostracised for refusing to dish out corporal punishment at the local school, flat-footed Cecil (Bird) bemoans a lack of beer, and caddish, cowardly Bert (Sweet) sets his cap at a grieving widow. Chickens: What The Inbetweeners did next
- I spent a lot of time watching my feet, making sure to throw off of my left foot rather than resorting to my old flat-footed infielder peg.
- Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion polls suddenly started to swing the other way.
- In contrast, the A. afarensis bone resembled that of the flat-footed apes, making it improbable that its foot had an arch like our own.
- Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion polls suddenly started to swing the other way.
- Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion polls suddenly started to swing the other way.