footling
foolish; silly: ridiculous, footling remarks.
trifling or useless.
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How to use footling in a sentence
Ive repeated to myself over and over again exactly what I want to say to you, and now all Id prepared seems rather footling.
The Circle | W. Somerset MaughamIf you ask me, I should call it a simply footling show—but you were long enough over it.
The Travelling Companions | F. AnsteySeems as if everything were too small and footling to matter.
Notwithstanding | Mary CholmondeleyStill jumping, I said to myself: 'What in the name of glory are those asses right and left footling about?
'Neath Verdun, August-October, 1914 | Maurice GenevoixOnly a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling.
Right Ho, Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse
British Dictionary definitions for footling
/ (ˈfuːtlɪŋ) /
informal silly, trivial, or petty
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