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pussyfootedverbpast tense of pussyfoot to avoid giving a definite answer or positionpoliticians who try to pussyfoot around hot-button issues equivocated, fudged, hedged, tergiversated, waffled, weaseled flip-flopped, yo-yoeddodged, ducked, eluded, eschewed, evaded, shirked, shook, shunned, sidestepped, skirtedbypassed, circumventedcaviled(or cavilled), quibbledstraddled beat around the bush(or beat about the bush), hemmed and hawed, straddled the fence to move about in a sly or secret mannerpussyfooting through the hallways in the middle of the night lurked, mooched, moused, shirked, skulked, slid, slipped, slunk(also slinked), snaked, sneaked(or snuck), stole crawled, crept, edged, inched, wormedghosted, padded, tiptoed |