Meaning of footling | Babel Free

Definitions

trivial, silly and irritating.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“They are electrically hauled, and travel⟳ at over 70 m.p.h. between stops, but they make⟳ five stops at footling little country towns and take⟳ two hours for the 98-mile run⟳.”

““Why did you persist in writing hurlothrumbo romances of the footling sort⟳ favored by mooncalfs?””

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