1. A reference to wasting time and behaving in a foolish way: Fred considered his friend a footling amateur when he played basketball.
2. Pertaining to insignificant, worthless, and even irritating behavior and words: Garret's footling contribution when working with his colleagues was considered to be useless and silly.

Karl was very upset with his wife's constant criticisms about him and he told her that she comes with the same footling complaints day after day and week after week.