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footless

[ UK /fˈʊtləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having no feet or analogous appendages

How To Use footless In A Sentence

  • I weave the shoes of sorrow : Soundless shall be the footless light In all men 's ears of sorrow , Sudden and light .
  • This doll was homemade, it was obvious, stitched together from now-turquoise and pink scraps, with a round head, handless arms, and footless legs.
  • For jazz and tap classes, girls and boys generally are required to wear footless black tights over their regulation leotards.
  • Now that is just the kind of delight in the senses that scares those who would control the contours of pleasure, and those who feel footless, out of control when such pleasure -- not its simulation -- wells up. ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010
  • The client has wheeled himself uncomfortably close to me, his footless leg dressed in a brightly colored argyle sock.
  • After eating this delicate morsel it devours the honey in the cells of the bee and changes into a white, cylindrical, nearly footless grub, and after it is full-fed, and has assumed a supposed "pupa" state, the skin, without bursting, incloses a kind of hard "pupa" skin, which is very similar in outline to the former larva, within whose skin is found a whitish larva which directly changes into the true pupa. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
  • But time and again, she was told footless panty hose was simply a bad idea. Matt Wilson: Three Steps to Gain a Competitive Advantage
  • (a) what is simply without some power, but also (b) what is adapted by nature to have it but has not it or has it only in a very low degree, as when we say that a species of swallow is 'footless' or that ON THE SOUL
  • What Larry now did, as he got into the taxi, he would have called footless and foolhardy an hour before, and at any other hour his judgment might have restrained him. Children of the Whirlwind
  • Thus we see that in the Synaptidae the thick and irregular calcareous bodies of the Holothurians have been modified and transformed in various ways in adaptation to the footlessness of these animals, and to the peculiar conditions of their life, and we must conclude that the earlier stages of these changes presented themselves to the processes of selection in the form of microscopic variations. Evolution in Modern Thought
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