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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having splay-feet.

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Examples

  • He wore black jeans, a short-sleeve Western shirt with the sleeves cuffed, and he walked with a splay-footed swagger.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • He wore black jeans, a short-sleeve Western shirt with the sleeves cuffed, and he walked with a splay-footed swagger.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • He wore black jeans, a short-sleeve Western shirt with the sleeves cuffed, and he walked with a splay-footed swagger.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • If blacks were given the right to vote, that would "place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored Negro in the country upon an equality with the poor white man."

    Whitewash 2007

  • Mr. Lambert was in the right in calling a fond wife by the name of that absurd splay-footed bird, annually sacrificed at the Feast of

    The Virginians 2006

  • The body is contained in a perpendicular, parchment-like, splay-footed tube a foot and a half or two feet long, whence the heads obtrude alternately as buds along a growing branch.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • Inman followed the woman, noting that she stepped with inturned toes, a style of walking often said to be favored by Indians, though Inman had known many a Cherokee, Swimmer among them, who walked splay-footed as mergansers.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Its legs had shortened to give it a splay-footed stance, and the digits of its paws had lengthened and spread like fingers to end in hooked claws.

    Antrax Brooks, Terry 2001

  • Inman followed the woman, noting that she stepped with inturned toes, a style of walking often said to be favored by Indians, though Inman had known many a Cherokee, Swimmer among them, who walked splay-footed as mergansers.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Big and wide and heavy, folded now into the hull, but when they were down, they were comically splay-footed, with a wide reach to hold the ship on almost any terrain.

    Crashlander Niven, Larry 1994

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