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.
Source: wiktionary
Footling
//ˈfuːt.lɪŋ//
Synonyms for "footling" (28 found)
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4 translations across 2 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- незначителен adj (Trivial; unimportant)
- тривиален adj (Trivial; unimportant)
Finnish
2 entries- joutava adj (Trivial; unimportant)
- vähäpätöinen adj (Trivial; unimportant)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling.
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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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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.
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