Definition of "wrongfooting" [wrongfooting]

• Present participle of wrongfoot. (verb)

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• "John Harris seems beguiled by the Tories' rhetorical support for co-operatives and by Jesse Norman MP, the chair of Conservative Co-operatives From John Lewis to workers' co-ops: these Tories love wrongfooting the left, 18 April."
• "Labour bill to reform Lords aimed at wrongfooting David Cameron"
• "In a show that is effectively a double-act with his technology, Gorman has turned using PowerPoint into an art form, repeatedly wrongfooting the audience's expectations and finding joy or bewildered outrage in the minutiae of the media that increasingly shape the way we see the world."