flatfooted

Adjective

 * 1) Having flat feet.
 * 2) Blunt and unsubtle; lacking finesse.
 * 1) Blunt and unsubtle; lacking finesse.

Adverb

 * 1) Unprepared to respond; unready.
 * They were caught flatfooted when Clancy filed to enter the race.
 * 1) Putting the entire foot down at once, rather than landing on the ball of the foot and then lowering the rest of the foot.
 * 2) With one's feet flat on the ground.
 * 3)  Without pausing between swallows.
 * 1) Putting the entire foot down at once, rather than landing on the ball of the foot and then lowering the rest of the foot.
 * 2) With one's feet flat on the ground.
 * 3)  Without pausing between swallows.
 * 1) With one's feet flat on the ground.
 * 2)  Without pausing between swallows.
 * 1)  Without pausing between swallows.