footling
Americanadjective
-
foolish; silly.
ridiculous, footling remarks.
-
trifling or useless.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of footling
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
This is in the grand scheme of things a footling detail, and there are many thousands more lines, and two more realms, to get through.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2013
Still, he was expected to risk body and bone in a footling contest.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2010
It would hurt horribly to do so, but would a man sacrifice everything on account of some footling argument about a street?
From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Cournos, John
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
