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underfoot

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1. underfoot - Noun

2. underfoot - Adjective

3. underfoot - Verb

4. underfoot - Adverb

Meaning

Under the feet; underneath; below. See Under foot, under Foot, n.

Low; base; abject; trodden down.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. Augustine of Hippo

The entire Party and country should wake up, throw into the flames and twist the neck of any one who tramples underfoot the sacred law of the Party in defense of the rights of women and girls. Enver Hoxha

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared. Lucretius

Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try. Tom Holt

Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross and hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. Maya Angelou

Lolla-Wossiky is left like a White man then. Cut off from the land. Ground crunching underfoot. Branches snagging. Roots tripping. Animals running away. Orson Scott Card

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