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
• Trump also plays footsie with some of the most abusive leaders in the world.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 19 Sep. 2017
• Sports leagues are playing footsie with gambling more and more.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 29 June 2017
• The right's game of footsie with the alt-right ostensibly ended when Trump won.
  — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
• The Right’s game of footsie with the alt-right ostensibly ended when Trump won.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 16 Aug. 2017
• The third boomer president (Barack Obama) didn’t want to play footsie with Congress to get things done.
  — Dallas News, 29 May 2020
• David Friesen was done playing footsie with s’mores-flavored ice cream.
  — Kara Lewis, anne Kniggendorf,, kansascity.com, 13 June 2017
• But why not try anyway, if the bill is already playing footsie with Senate rules?
  — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 13 Mar. 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
• 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
• Even after playing footsie with him in various ways, cutting deal to exploit his global reach?
  — The Hive, 20 June 2017
• Every Republican who ever played footsie with the militias out west owns this bloodshed.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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, 17 Oct. 2017
• 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, 29 Sep. 2021
• As these two financial giants play overseas footsie, Chan acts as a facilitator.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2017
• President Trump played footsie with the white supremacist movement during his campaign.
  — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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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