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pussyfootverb to avoid giving a definite answer or positionpoliticians who try to pussyfoot around hot-button issues equivocate, fudge, hedge, tergiversate, waffle, weasel flip-flop, yo-yododge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, shake, shirk, shun, sidestep, skirtbypass, circumventcavil, quibblestraddle beat around the bush(or beat about the bush), hem and haw, straddle the fence to move about in a sly or secret mannerpussyfooting through the hallways in the middle of the night lurk, mooch, mouse, shirk, skulk, slide, slink, slip, snake, sneak, steal crawl, creep, edge, inch, wormghost, pad, tiptoe in 1903 |