pussyfoot

1 to avoid giving a definite answer or position politicians who try to pussyfoot around hot-button issues Synonyms fudge, hedge, equivocate, tergiversate, waffle, weaselRelated Words flip-flop, yo-yo; dodge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, shake, shirk, shun, sidestep, skirt; bypass, circumvent; cavil, quibble; straddle

2 to move about in a sly or secret manner pussyfooting through the hallways in the middle of the night Synonyms lurk, mooch, mouse, sneak, shirk, skulk, slide, slink, slip, snake, stealRelated Words crawl, creep, edge, inch, worm; ghost, pad, tiptoe