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foot-draggings

foot-draggings is the plural of foot-dragging.

Meaning of foot-dragging

Noun

foot-dragging (usually uncountable, plural foot-draggings)

  1. (also, attributive, usually) The deliberate delaying of, or reluctance to take, obligatory action.
    • I am glad to be able to say that common honesty, or some shadowy simulacrum of it, revived presently and sent me back to the hotel, though not without terrible foot-draggings, you may be sure.1918 April, Francis Lynde, Branded, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 114

Questions about foot-draggings

What is foot-draggings the plural of?
Foot-draggings is the plural of foot-dragging.

Words near foot-draggings in the dictionary

  1. foot-candle
  2. foot-candles
  3. foot-dragger
  4. foot-draggers
  5. foot-dragging
  6. foot-draggings
  7. foot-fall
  8. foot-falls
  9. foot-flagging
  10. foot-ganger
  11. foot-gangers

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