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pussyfooting

verb , present participle of pussyfoot

Synonyms and Antonyms of pussyfooting

1 to avoid giving a definite answer or position

politicians who try to pussyfoot around hot-button issues

Synonyms of pussyfooting

equivocating, fudging, hedging, tergiversating, waffling, weaseling

Words Related to pussyfooting

flip-flopping, yo-yoing

dodging, ducking, eluding, eschewing, evading, shaking, shirking, shunning, sidestepping, skirting

bypassing, circumventing

caviling (or cavilling), quibbling

Phrases Synonymous with pussyfooting

beating around the bush (or beating about the bush), hemming and hawing, straddling the fence

2 to move about in a sly or secret manner

pussyfooting through the hallways in the middle of the night

Synonyms of pussyfooting

lurking, mooching, mousing, shirking, skulking, sliding, slinking, slipping, snaking, sneaking, stealing

Words Related to pussyfooting

crawling, creeping, edging, inching, worming

ghosting, padding, tiptoeing

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