shoeless


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shoeless

(ˈʃuːləs)
adj
lacking shoes; barefoot
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.shoeless - without shoesshoeless - without shoes; "the barefoot boy"; "shoeless Joe Jackson"
unshoed, unshod - not shod
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References in classic literature ?
This spade is sharp as hone can make it; the spademan's feet are shoeless; the thing he stands on will sometimes irresistibly slide away from him, like a sledge.
Of course my shoeless foot suffered dreadfully; the hoof was broken and split down to the very quick, and the inside was terribly cut by the sharpness of the stones.
At five minutes before eight, Passepartout, hatless, shoeless, and having in the squabble lost his package of shirts and shoes, rushed breathlessly into the station.
"But why should she walk shoeless through all that water?" said my guardian.
Before lying down he crept shoeless upstairs, and listened at the door of her apartment.
After a hearty squeeze, he disappeared with the same cautious creak upon the stair, crept shoeless over the pavement of the yard, and, locking the gates behind him, passed out into the front where he had left his shoes.
There was nobody inside but a miserable shoeless criminal, who had been taken up for playing the flute, and who, the offence against society having been clearly proved, had been very properly committed by Mr.
He was turbanless, shoeless, caked with dirt, and all but dead with rough handling.
Over him hovered the ghost of Washington in warning attitude, and in the background a troop of shadowy soldiers in Continental uniform were limping with shoeless, bandaged feet through a driving snow-storm.
She came home dirty, draggled, and shoeless; she had walked for a whole week without shoes; she had slept in the fields, and caught a terrible cold; her feet were swollen and sore, and her hands torn and scratched all over.
He went by boat, arriving brown, shabby, and almost shoeless, among his London friends.
He bore his prize straight to his own back- garret, where, footsore and nearly shoeless, wet, dirty, jaded, and disfigured with every mark of fatiguing travel, sat Nicholas and Smike, at once the cause and partner of his toil; both perfectly worn out by their unwonted and protracted exertion.