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footling
[ foot-ling ]
adjective
, Informal.
- foolish; silly:
ridiculous, footling remarks.
- trifling or useless.
footling
/ ˈfuːtlɪŋ /
adjective
- informal.silly, trivial, or petty
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Example Sentences
Ive repeated to myself over and over again exactly what I want to say to you, and now all Id prepared seems rather footling.
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If you ask me, I should call it a simply footling show—but you were long enough over it.
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Seems as if everything were too small and footling to matter.
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Still jumping, I said to myself: 'What in the name of glory are those asses right and left footling about?
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Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling.
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