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, 19 July 2017
  • Sports leagues are playing footsie with gambling more and more.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 29 June 2017
  • Trump also plays footsie with some of the most abusive leaders in the world.
    — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 19 Sep. 2017
  • But why not try anyway, if the bill is already playing footsie with Senate rules?
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Even after playing footsie with him in various ways, cutting deal to exploit his global reach?
    — The Hive, 20 June 2017
  • The third boomer president (Barack Obama) didn’t want to play footsie with Congress to get things done.
    — Dallas News, 29 May 2020
  • Every Republican who ever played footsie with the militias out west owns this bloodshed.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Aug. 2017
  • As these two financial giants play overseas footsie, Chan acts as a facilitator.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2017
  • 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, 20 Nov. 2020
  • 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, 17 Feb. 2017
  • Roger's most vociferous detractors in the blogosphere often accuse him of playing footsie with climate skeptics.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2010
  • The Arab states are willing to play footsie with Israel under the table, thereby reducing what little leverage the Palestinians have.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 June 2017
  • When the two single moms brought them together for family dinners, Devi and Des were condemned to playing footsie for the evening and hiding their relationship.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • 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, 24 Sep. 2017
  • 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, 21 June 2021
  • 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, 18 May 2022
  • Examples abound, but one of the latest is the party’s embrace of weak energy policies and its decision to play footsie with the Left’s climate hysterics for crass political purposes.
    — Chip Roy, National Review, 5 July 2022
  • 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, 1 Mar. 2019
  • The Republicans’ willingness to play footsie with the equity agenda is surprising, if not politically foolish.
    — Dan Lennington, National Review, 5 Aug. 2021

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