footling
Americanadjective
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foolish; silly.
ridiculous, footling remarks.
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trifling or useless.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of footling
Example Sentences
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About two hours later, it was recognised Arthur was "an unanticipated footling breech", the Record of Inquest states.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2023
That left Jonathan with lifelong feelings of guilt, which led him on several occasions to announce that he was abandoning what he once called “this footling flibbertigibbet world of theater.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
The problem is, almost certainly, with the script itself – its footling dialogue about what to wear and rationing, its flurries of melodrama.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2013
Still, he was expected to risk body and bone in a footling contest.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2010
Sometimes he made what George Edmund regarded as quite footling comments.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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