footle

How To Use footle In A Sentence

• 'If you sit down and listen in any moderately lucid state of mind the impression you have is of an old man muttering and ranting on in the aural foreground, while some young lads, engaged on some completely unrelated project, footle around with the controls on a mixing desk in the next room' FallNet - the punk foot of nose
• With a little hard work and a lot of time, a headless, footless and handless body soon stood in my apartment. The Scary Reality of a Real-Life Barbie Doll
• Given the car's brick outhouse aerodynamics it footles along at a fair old clip, only the odd crosswind unsettling matters.
• And the broken stones of the Gothic ruin, in the freshness and rawness of their ruin, seemed to be bleeding out human aspiration, spilling it footlessly upon the dead earth. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
• Many of them are footless as a result of outrageous levels of alcohol.
• Know, you footler!" growled Smathers, disgustedly. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
• Permission to footle in the lab. on half-holidays, and all the rest of it? Acton's Feud A Public School Story
• More than most well-educated, middle-class talents of his generation, he footled his life away as a forlorn, frustrated flaneur, squandering several inherited fortunes to achieve renown only under a false name playing an elaborate practical joke.
• Erica wore a leotard and footless tights of luminescent green that shimmered like fishscales when she moved. AN OLDER WOMAN
• Aristotle's approach to the subject is to ask "why some animals are footless, others bipeds, others quadrupeds, others polypods, and why all have an even number of feet, if they have feet at all; why in fine the points on which progression depends are even in number. Archive 2009-03-01