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footdragging

footdragging is the alternative form 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

Forms of footdragging

pluralfootdraggings

Questions about footdragging

What is footdragging the alternative form of?
Footdragging is the alternative form of foot-dragging.

Words near footdragging in the dictionary

  1. footcaves
  2. footcloth
  3. footcloths
  4. footdragger
  5. footdraggers
  6. footdragging
  7. footdraggings
  8. footdrop
  9. foote
  10. footed
  11. footed drum

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