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pussyfootingverbpresent participle of pussyfoot to avoid giving a definite answer or positionpoliticians who try to pussyfoot around hot-button issues equivocating, fudging, hedging, tergiversating, waffling, weaseling flip-flopping, yo-yoingdodging, ducking, eluding, eschewing, evading, shaking, shirking, shunning, sidestepping, skirtingbypassing, circumventingcaviling(or cavilling), quibblingstraddling beating around the bush(or beating about the bush), hemming and hawing, straddling the fence to move about in a sly or secret mannerpussyfooting through the hallways in the middle of the night lurking, mooching, mousing, shirking, skulking, sliding, slinking, slipping, snaking, sneaking, stealing crawling, creeping, edging, inching, wormingghosting, padding, tiptoeing |