barefoot
adverb or adjective
bare·foot
ˈber-ˌfu̇t 
variants
or barefooted
: with the feet bare
walked barefoot
barefoot boy, with cheek of tan—
J. G. Whittier
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Think about wearing it while walking barefoot on the beach in Turks and Caicos or sipping iced lattes at a café in Los Angeles.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2025
Danger hangs in the air like the clouds over the fields where Sammie works barefoot, mud squelched between his toes.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
More than a month later, and two days after her own memorial service, the lady preacher reappeared, still barefoot but now wandering around a Mexican desert, hundreds of miles away.
—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
The pilot weaved together two timelines with that 1996 crash and the present-day survivors, played by a beloved cast, and there was a killer flash-forward opening of an unidentified girl running for her life, barefoot through snow, who is then impaled and eaten by her friends.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
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Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2025
Danger hangs in the air like the clouds over the fields where Sammie works barefoot, mud squelched between his toes.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
More than a month later, and two days after her own memorial service, the lady preacher reappeared, still barefoot but now wandering around a Mexican desert, hundreds of miles away.
—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
The pilot weaved together two timelines with that 1996 crash and the present-day survivors, played by a beloved cast, and there was a killer flash-forward opening of an unidentified girl running for her life, barefoot through snow, who is then impaled and eaten by her friends.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Barefoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barefoot. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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