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halting

adj. fragmentary or halting from emotional strain; "uttered a few halting words of sorrow"

labored, laboured, strained

adj. lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"

weighty

adj. weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry; "weighty problems"

broken

adj. physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken"

faltering

adj. unsteady in speech or action

hesitant, hesitating

adj. lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly

stammering, stuttering

adj. unable to speak freely and easily

unacceptable, unsatisfactory

adj. "the pay is unsatisfactory and the conditions are unacceptable"

afflicted, impaired

adj. mentally or physically unfit

apractic, apraxic

adj. having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder

autistic

adj. characteristic of or affected with autism; "autistic behavior"; "autistic children"

bad

adj. "has a bad back"

bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged

adj. have legs that curve outward at the knees

broken-backed

adj. (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth

crookback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic

adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column

disabled, handicapped

adj. incapable of functioning as a consequence of injury or illness

flat-footed

adj. suffering from fallen arches

gammy

adj. (British informal) sore or lame; "a gammy foot"

knock-kneed

adj. having the knees abnormally close together and the ankles wide apart

spavined

adj. (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint

dipped, lordotic, swayback, swaybacked

adj. having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)

maimed, mutilated

adj. having a part of the body crippled or disabled

unsound, out of condition

adj. unfit

paralytic, paralyzed

adj. affected with paralysis

paraplegic

adj. suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord

shallow

adj. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"

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