English to express this, we shall attain the same object by considering knee and footlingbirths as mere modifications of breech presentations.
The value of this practice in footling cases was first pointed out by Deleurye,[93] and particularly applied to the second act of turning by Wigand.
For the little footling services I rendered her on the journey, she's idiotically grateful--out of all proportion.
I'm not such an ass as to fall off a footling balcony.
And you refuse your footling little insignificant self.
When Jacob Wundt came to Merivale, Dunston just went the limit about him; and it was all the more footling because Wundt grinned, and evidently highly approved of what was said about him.
So everything would have been perfection but for the idiotic andfootling behaviour of Protheroe min.
For instance, I wrote the following poem in less than ten minutes: The Hun, the Hun, the footling Hun, Most certainly doth take the bun.
Yes, she is, and rather amusing, too, in a footlingsort of way.
Take Roger, for example, will he become Lord Chancellor of England, or a footling little Registrar of a footling County Court?
All this footling squabble between workmen and employers about a farthing an hour more or a farthing an hour less .
I wouldn't lose this day at Pompeii for a shipload of footling schoolmasters.
Well, you can tell the footling ass from me that he's a thumping liar.
Dunstan's footling Good Conduct Prize, which is always a book of a particularly deadly kind, such as Lays of Ancient Rome; but he meant the special prize his father had promised him if he won the highest marks for good conduct in his class.
Of course he wouldn't have run the risk of taking it--such an utter footling coward as him.
Which showed what a footling state of mind Morris had got into.
But I wasn't going to make a fool of myself at footlinggames for anybody, and I always did get out of them when I could.
They have a footling way of preferring everything to drag on in a tame and dull manner.
Which shows what a footling ass Blount was over this wretched girl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
