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so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention
- the assistant's job was to shield the president from such footling problems
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footling
verb
present participle of footle
Synonyms & Antonyms of footling (Entry 2 of 2)
to spend time doing nothing
- spent the morning footling about while others were working
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“Footling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footling. Accessed 20 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of footling was in 1888
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