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 flatfooted In A Sentence
- With his long arms and peculiar flatfooted gait, his opponents compared him to an ape. Times, Sunday Times
- Now the two tech icons are running neck and neck -- a reversal of fortune the bloggerati are inclined to ascribe to a combination of Steve Jobs 'genius and Microsoft's flatfootedness. Microsoft Slumps As Apple Trumps
- But it very quickly degenerates into a flatfooted, predictable affair with a thumpingly earnest moral message. Times, Sunday Times
- Eurozone leaders have been astonishingly flatfooted in response to this crisis. Times, Sunday Times
- As a minister, despite a restricted budget, he once again displayed that spectacular flair that made his colleagues seem flatfooted. Times, Sunday Times
- He has been a clumsy, flatfooted and ponderous at times. Times, Sunday Times
- Surely you wouldn't rather stumble about with your thick-necked flatfooted lummox of a boyfriend.
- There's flatfooted choreography and one regrettable rap sequence. Times, Sunday Times
- But thanks to the flatfooted regime of the 1930s, means testing remains anathema. Times, Sunday Times
- He was flatfooted, knock-kneed and didn't remotely move his hips, just waved his arms like a lamppost. The Sun