Sentence examples for footling from high-quality English sources.

• Britain’s one-off £8.6m ($11.3m) is footling.

• It stars Meryl Streep as Alice Hughes, a distinguished American novelist who has been awarded something called the Footling Prize.

• To outsiders, these alleged offences may seem footling.

• Yet Mr Schwarzman avoids footling with life’s foot-soldiers for a reason.

• Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.

• Telephone calls for funds were made from federal property: a footling technicality, if calls for funds are kosher.

• But it is Lords reform, a footling concern to the electorate, that is likeliest to poison relations between Tories and Lib Dems.

• BNP Paribas of France sold its Egyptian business seven years ago and earned a footling €121m ($143m) in the Middle East in 2018.

Use footling in a sentence.

• The vulnerable, uninsured novelist seems like a footling flâneur, a daydreamer in danger of being coöpted by the big salaried reality of American life:

• His statements on Iran have been so contradictory it is unclear what his policy is there: regime change or a footling renegotiation of Barack Obama’s nuclear deal.

• As the sun gradually brightens, the level of carbon dioxide in the air will fall, regardless of any temporary, millennia-long blips caused by footling things such as a civilisation based on fossil fuels.

• Quite right, then, that authorities on both sides of Britain’s great debate are raising their eyes from footling claims about gas bills and farming subsidies and asking the essential question: who are we?

• Among his own favorite adjectives, Amis seems to have retired “footling” (four instances in “The War Against Cliché”; none that I can find in “The Rub of Time”) but developed a great fondness for “frictionless.”

• A wooden-hulled ship with two masts and a central funnel, it was a footling eleven hundred and fifty tons and about two hundred feet long (compared with the QM 2’s hundred and fifty thousand tons and quarter-mile length).

• It would be cruel indeed if the former communist countries of East and Central Europe, having struggled through a decade of tortuous negotiations and painful changes, were to find entry to the EU blocked by what must seem to them a footling dispute over an island of just 750,000 or so people.

• And, despite assurances that the European Arrest Warrant would be reserved for the gravest crimes, it has been used thousands of times in cases both footling (one extradition involved the alleged theft of a piglet) and troubling (warrants have swept up people tried in absentia without their knowledge).

footling sentence examples

• Insofar as Laevsky has any friends, there is Samoylenko (Niall Buggy), a robust doctor, who spends half his time sweating in the kitchen to feed his two lodgers: a footling man of God (Jeremy Swift) and, in the opposing camp, a scientist named Von Koren (Tobias Menzies), whose scorn for the feeble and the fanciful leads him to declare repeatedly, and not wholly in jest, that unproductive members of society should be exterminated.