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  • adjective Alternative form of light-footed.

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Examples

  • A mural on one side of the imposing dining-hall depicts the history of the Raramuri tribe ( "lightfooted people") as the local Tarahumara Indians call themselves.

    Mexico's Copper Canyon 2008

  • A mural on one side of the imposing dining-hall depicts the history of the Raramuri tribe ( "lightfooted people") as the local Tarahumara Indians call themselves.

    Mexico's Copper Canyon 2008

  • Also, please recall how much less harshly conservatives treated Vitter's heterosexual whoremongering versus Sen. Larry Craig's lightfooted "stall tactics".

    Your Right Hand Thief 2007

  • Also, please recall how much less harshly conservatives treated Vitter's heterosexual whoremongering versus Sen. Larry Craig's lightfooted "stall tactics".

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • The messenger was a lightfooted boy of his own clan, whom he used sometimes to send on errands into the

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • The film is full of such coy references to sex; Cukor seems to be as much of a "tease" as Angie herself, and the film constantly dances around the naughty bits with a lightfooted grace that makes such discretion funny and exhilarating rather than simply frustrating.

    2/6: Heller in Pink Tights Ed Howard 2008

  • The film is full of such coy references to sex; Cukor seems to be as much of a "tease" as Angie herself, and the film constantly dances around the naughty bits with a lightfooted grace that makes such discretion funny and exhilarating rather than simply frustrating.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • The deer daintily approaches, silent and lightfooted, while Doomsday bulldozers through the forest, knocking over trees.

    Friday Night Fights! Doomsday vs Harmless Woodland Creature David Campbell 2007

  • The deer daintily approaches, silent and lightfooted, while Doomsday bulldozers through the forest, knocking over trees.

    Archive 2007-07-01 David Campbell 2007

  • It would be really bad that the US hands to Chavez an issue that it could win very easily if it uses some lightfooted diplomacy.

    05/22/2005 - 05/29/2005 2005

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