How to Use footsie in a Sentence

footsie

noun
  • This wasn't the first time the Times has played footsie with Rahm.
    — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 2017-07-19
  • Sports leagues are playing footsie with gambling more and more.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 2017-06-29
  • Trump also plays footsie with some of the most abusive leaders in the world.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 2017-09-19
  • David Friesen was done playing footsie with s’mores-flavored ice cream.
    — Kara Lewis, anne Kniggendorf,, kansascity.com, 2017-06-13
  • But why not try anyway, if the bill is already playing footsie with Senate rules?
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 2017-03-13
  • The right's game of footsie with the alt-right ostensibly ended when Trump won.
    — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 2017-08-16
  • The Right’s game of footsie with the alt-right ostensibly ended when Trump won.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 2017-08-16
  • Even after playing footsie with him in various ways, cutting deal to exploit his global reach?
    — The Hive, 2017-06-20
  • The third boomer president (Barack Obama) didn’t want to play footsie with Congress to get things done.
    — Dallas News, 2020-05-29
  • Every Republican who ever played footsie with the militias out west owns this bloodshed.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2017-08-13
  • As these two financial giants play overseas footsie, Chan acts as a facilitator.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 2017-04-25
  • President Trump played footsie with the white supremacist movement during his campaign.
    — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 2017-03-14
  • The none-too-subtle message on Russian state television has been that Pashinyan led his nation to catastrophe by playing footsie with the West.
    — Washington Post, 2020-11-20
  • Why should their residents continue to pay federal taxes that will go to reward states that played footsie with Obama, some of their representatives are asking.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2017-02-17
  • He's played the politics of the Trump era well, playing footsie with the administration over a Cabinet post and sounding open to compromise on issues like taxes.
    — Eric Bradner, CNN, 2017-10-17
  • The election of a David Duke as president would necessitate a different kind of response than the election of a person who plays footsie with David Duke.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 2017-09-24
  • No one inside the Capitol or who deals with lawmakers is talking publicly about the Legislature playing footsie with powerful interests.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 2021-06-21
  • Even Republican candidates who don’t subscribe to the most radical theories aiming to overturn past elections are playing political footsie with those who do.
    — New York Times, 2022-05-18
  • Robert Shireman was exiled from the Obama Administration after getting caught playing footsie with a short-seller betting against for-profit colleges.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2019-03-01
  • Youngkin’s strategy seemed straightforward: Avoid the most bombastic corners of Trump world—particularly the claim that the 2020 election was stolen—while playing footsie with it.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2021-09-29

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