Adjective : ridiculous, footling remarks.    From Dictionary.com. 

I would rather we attempt big, serious change and fail, than fiddlearound with footling, meaningless promises, limping through office andclinging to power for the sake of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference

Hague took her to task on footling, no-brainer issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

On Kelly he flannelled about some footling detail of parliamentary timing.    From Wordnik.com.  [In his comfort zone] Reference

The rest of the time he appears to have been footling about trying to get evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

"We can do nothing but handle the footling details of our lifespans, one piece at a time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

The business over whether he would sign in person or not is, on one level, a footling thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dishonourable Signature] Reference

In what kind of depraved civic realm does such footling nonsense come to be regarded by our 'flagship'.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Reid Tells Immigrants to 'Text Off'] Reference

Me: “Why did you persist in writing hurlothrumbo romances of the footling sort favored by mooncalfs?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Never mind the footling matter of Europe, of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, of the parlous state of the NHS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Ten Ways to Lose Votes: Instalment No 94] Reference

These guys obviously think that Nero has wrongly been accused of “fiddling” in the sense of “footling around”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiddling while Rome burned] Reference

I’m not sure what loyalty footling is, but am wondering whether an alternative translation could be “blogging”?.    From Wordnik.com.  [competition time] Reference

The men plainly admired Diana's nerve, while wondering with their eyebrows what on earth she could see in those three footling fellows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

In 1770 the "no" s thought they had sailed around what constituted definitive proof-but they were still footling about off New Zealand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terra Incognita]

Complaints about … a book's margin-sizes may look well enough in the columns of The New Yorker but appear footling between hardcovers ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Amis and the 'Talent Elite'-Count on a Fancy Prose Style] Reference

Say, Barry, I want to be placed, if possible, where I can do good work without getting popped off by some footling little arrow before the big game arrives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference

He doesn't know how he got there, not worried about it either - he's quite accustomed to finding himself in strange places, footling around the way he does.    From Wordnik.com.  [cbrimble Diary Entry] Reference

The second effect, which gets hardly any press, is the domestic impact of all those footling remuneration reports and box-ticking foisted on us by award-winning columnists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Roads Lead to Calvary] Reference

Lapland, and some footling researches he had made into the magic of the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales] Reference

And really, your objections, if you won't mind my saying so, are absolutely footling.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Brief Authority] Reference

Actually this is fairly footling, a row about journalists and who gets in to the Oval Office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benedict Brogan's political blog] Reference

Lots of footling measures for business could make life a little easier, but not in any dramatic way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

He said that all them footling little beasts were a-listening to 'em, and they told him all about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunate Youth] Reference

You also despair of the quality of judges who can reach such footling, middlebrow judgements as that one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Need I mention that real Mad Scientists do not fret over the footling trivia of the Institutional Review Board?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

Labour memoirs fall outside the PM's remit but the session isn't just there to obey its own footling guidelines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum] Reference

Teel me, what is the difference between condemning a Government proposal as 'shortsighted' as against 'footling'?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

They would be higher than the angels were it not for the fact that, in art, they are exquisitely and perfectly footling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference

But frankly if any Tory voter is cross about these footling measures they're going to be apoplectic about what's to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

About 20 years ago, Betty invited Frieda to a barbecue, then called up later and disinvited her for some footling reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

It would hurt horribly to do so, but would a man sacrifice everything on account of some footling argument about a street?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference

There's a work about to be published by Oxford University Press that I found out about by footling around yesterday on Twitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

It is very annoying, this business of being handed a receipt for every single transaction, however footling and non-tax-deductible.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

But this was a footling misstep by Capello when set against the elaborate pratfalls and embarrassments committed by his predecessors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Such efforts are dismissed as footling by many environmental-advocacy groups, who want to separate the lakes from the Mississippi for good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference