How To Use Footling In A Sentence
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It's fox hunting all over again - I cannot think of a more footling way to judge an author's ability than by the attention he pays to a particular social class.
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But I would be very surprised if most hunt members didn't soon tire of footling about and looked for other ways to relieve the boredom of country life in winter.
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An espionage conviction, no matter how footling the cited offense, was considered tantamount to proof of treason (except in the Fifth District of Wisconsin).
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At work, I am confronted with students engaged in every form of self-destruction, from frittering away their time on footling hedonism, to literal self-laceration and suicide attempts.
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He could always do something useful instead of wasting my time with footling queries.
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Not for us the footling ZT 120, with its mimsy 1.8 engine, nor even the ZT 180, with its utterly yawnsome 2.5-litre V6.
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A cheese eater from the moment I was born, I have always turned my nose up at the footling quoits and mini-pyramids of cream the French call cheese.
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Having taken the lead against Turkey their football became fitful, then flabby, and towards the end was footling.
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a footling gesture
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And he looked back at his 1997 pledges and described them as 'footling'.
Times, Sunday Times
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I would rather we attempt big, serious change and fail, than fiddlearound with footling, meaningless promises, limping through office andclinging to power for the sake of it.
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I have had a good deal of satisfaction over this weekend either footling around on my mountainbike, or watching the Manchester leg of the World Cup.
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The true Way to the Knowledge of the Source is not the timid and footling way of the Student, but the Divine Foolery of the Hacker.
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Still, these are footling changes, and most of the text remains commendably unimproved.
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It may be reassuring to some Americans to think of our country as above the community of nations and beyond the footling machinations of minor states.
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Allow one honest sentence to emerge from all this feeble, formulaic footling.
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This is really not the time for such games; for footling schemes and yet more fraudulent job creation initiatives involving the spending of money Britain doesn't have.
What's in Alistair Darling's Future?
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This is not some footling detail, beyond the ken of non-lawyers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet the freedoms which Englishmen have won over nearly eight hundred years have now been sold to a couple of Labour fellow-travellers for their votes so that the UK will now soften its policy towards Cuba and the issue of the all too footling sanctions against Cuba the EU maintains as a fig-leaf.
Brown's Payola Goverment Dips Into the Pork Barrel
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Don't abuse the privilege of having my cell number by wasting my valuable time on this kind of footling nonsense.
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He lists the erosion of liberty with enough precision to make objections to his flippancy seem footling (and based on straightforward political hostility).
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He could always do something useful instead of wasting my time with footling queries.
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As for the British people and their footling objections to this most wonderful of treaties, why, a pox on them!
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Yet here we are, hours later, arguing footling amendments, ridiculously trivial rubbish, that the so-called famous chairman of the select committee, all on his own behalf, changes the number, and all the rest of it.
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Another is the footling size of the fines: 5 million is the record.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is hard and almost footling to attempt comment on such experiences.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a theological conclusion this is pleasantly orthodox; as poetry it seems footling.
The Times Literary Supplement
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JUNO [huffily] I don't know what you call footling --
Overruled
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It's also odd (why waste a penny stamp on such a footling joke?).
The Times Literary Supplement
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While pacifying those who worry about liberty with a footling commission, composed largely of lawyers from left and right, who cancel each other out, Clarke proposes a vast extension of secrecy in the civil courts and inquests, which will suppress evidence of corruption and negligence in high places, as well as reduce access to justice and the public's right to know.
Ken Clarke is ready to betray 800 years of British justice | Henry Porter
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Like housing, it hardly got a look-in, except for some absurdly footling measures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unfortunately the analyses of actual music are pedestrian and footling.
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That's a footling difference in any one year but cumulatively ruinous over decades.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is no mere technical detail of footling importance: it goes to the very heart of the legitimacy of the Parliament which for now claims to have authority in this land and as such this matter will not go away.
Arrogant Sarkozy Forgets That Government Requires Consent
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But such complaints seem footling in the face of such a grandstanding display.
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But I have to say that I won't be detained by footling objections of this kind.