Antonyms for cloven-footed


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kloh-vuh n-hoo ft, -hooft
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkloʊ vənˈhʊft, -ˈhuft


Definition of cloven-footed

  • As in devilish : adj wicked
Example sentences :
  • They are, unquestionably, the smallest of all cloven-footed animals.
  • Extract from : « Buffon's Natural History. Volume VIII (of 10) » by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
  • Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
  • Extract from : « Notes on the Book of Leviticus » by C. H. Mackintosh
  • The skin of cloven-footed birds is unwholsome; of whole-footed birds wholesome, because the water washes all corruption out of em.
  • Extract from : « Early English Meals and Manners » by Various
  • The cloven-footed animals which do not ruminate are the hog family.
  • Extract from : « Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus » by William MacGillivray
  • Steller's sea-cow (Rhytina Stelleri, Cuvier) in a way took the place of the cloven-footed animals among the marine mammalia.
  • Extract from : « The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II » by A.E. Nordenskieold
  • The 7th is the Cloven-footed Water-Fowl, including those with pinnated feet.
  • Extract from : « The Mosaic History of the Creation of the World » by Thomas Wood
  • Like other cloven-footed animals, the stag can be unguled of a different colour.
  • Extract from : « A Complete Guide to Heraldry » by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
  • And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean unto you.
  • Extract from : « Sheep, Swine, and Poultry » by Robert Jennings
  • I quit the woods pursued by winged and cloven-footed fiends, and ran to the house of Andy Hinchman.
  • Extract from : « Fifteen Years in Hell » by Luther Benson
  • The trot is common to all the single-toed and to nearly all the cloven-footed and soft-footed animals.
  • Extract from : « Descriptive Zoopraxography » by Eadweard Muybridge

Synonyms for cloven-footed

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