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footling

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈfuːt.lɪŋ/Part of speech adjectiveSorted fgilnootStarts with FEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (informal) small and of little importance

Word origin

From footle + -ing.

Used in a sentence

  • He was explaining to her things about the air service. . . . "Isn't it rather dangerous work?" she asked. She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it.
  • Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling.
  • For 28 footling days the 58-nation General Assembly had been debating the now-famous U.S. afterthought: to postpone partition and substitute a U.N. trusteeship for Palestine.

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